#rve

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#calls #care #communities #drives #especially

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world. ↗

— Margaret Smith Court

#femininity #i #preserve #something #tried

I love competition and really going for it and doing my best, but losing isn't really upsetting to me. I feel like if I do lose, the other person really deserved it. ↗

— Corbin Bleu

#competition #deserved #doing #feel #going

I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.' ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#god #gonna #hottest #i #kind

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#anymore #been #best #cannot #care

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ↗

— William Bligh

#cape #daylight #fires #first #first time

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#dynamic #faith #finest #human #human qualities

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#any #consequences #contract #deserves #goes

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#collection #consists #create #family #family members