Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
ALAN LIGHTMANToil of science swells the wealth of art.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
BORIS JOHNSON -
Is the people’s lack of religious faith and the fact that they are uneducated.
ABDU'L-BAHA -
See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.
LAOZI -
I’ll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .
BETTY SMITH -
I wanted to show that women could run, but I also wanted to kind of inspire the idea that ordinary people can run.
BOBBI GIBB -
The first of the month falls every month, too, North or South. And them white folks who sends bills never forgets to send them-the phone bill, the furniture bill, the water bill, the gas bill, insurance, house rent.
LANGSTON HUGHES -
I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can’t say it came from hard-nosed business analysis… It was just something I really want to see built.
BEN SILBERMANN -
Lord, guide me to always see your face when I look in the mirror and not my own vanity.
LILIANA ARRATIA ZAMORA -
People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don’t want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL -
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
RAMAKRISHNA -
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
BORIS YELTSIN -
For me, the most disturbing aspect of the Republican political culture is how it puts its unquenchable thirst for power, domination and a radical ideology above facts, reason and the truth.
AL GORE -
We’re so happy, even when we’re smiling out of fear.
LORDE -
I’ve covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don’t think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
BEN GIBBARD -
I’ve done a lot of independent film, which are short shoots that are usually four to six weeks, max.
ADELAIDE CLEMENS