William Whewell Quotes

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

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GreatWillAlwaysLineForceFine

I can only speak for my husband and myself, but we don't feel like we could do any of this parenting without our faith.

Jodi Benson

FaithMyselfParentingHusbandSpeak

At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FatherMyselfNightBookAttention

I just think about cutting my hair when it's too hot or when I have to go somewhere that I have to wash it and style it. That's when I think about cutting it.

Anderson Varejao

StyleHairThinkGoHotWash

You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel.

John Lewis

FeelYouGoSometimesGutYour

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

John Hughes

ThinkHumanKidsSpeciesFormLower

I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

LovePeopleMeWorldNowOver

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

Stephen Ambrose

LifeDailyHistoryDaily LifeCrazy

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Tony Judt

MoneyParentsThinkLondonMy Own

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Jon Watts

HomeTimeMeControlSomeoneYou

If all goes well, the Iraqis are going to have a country that's going to have a representative government and will be at peace with its neighbors and in the region.

Douglas Feith

PeaceGovernmentCountryWillGoing

You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

Debby Ryan

MusicYouForceComeJust

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

Chi McBride

EntertainmentRealBe RealJustTV

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