David Rittenhouse Quotes

#1. He had not become a sentinel by worrying about what he should or shouldn't do. He would live or die as he always had, by making decision he knew to be right ...
Graydon didn't hide from life. He flew at it with everything he had.

Thea Harrison

#2. Discussions about how God reveals himself to people have little meaning in a purely theoretical framework.

Derek Morphew

#3. Let it all be animal, my life and death, hard and clean like that, anything but human ... a lot I care, me with my red heart in the dark earth and my tattooed feet following the animal ways.

Vali Myers

#4. What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Andre Dubus

#5. And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

Jane Austen

#6. In order to know the true situation of a Planet at any particular time, the small set of balls are to be put each on its respective axis; then the winch to be turned round until each index points to the given time.

David Rittenhouse

#7. The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#8. For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

#9. The Shits played raucous music, which was danced to by immature virgins in middleless dresses.

Robert Sheckley

#10. But Dr. Smith says, and I believe it to be a true state of the case, that he himself gave a course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy, during the same winter, and that the money raised by them was also applied towards paying for the Orrery.

David Rittenhouse