David Brin Quotes
But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
Saint Ambrose
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
Jackie Kennedy
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
J. D. Souther
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
Tara Brach
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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Secular culture, with the aid of psychoanalysis, has continued the old Christian habit of observing the self only to criticize it.
Sam Keen
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On 'Scandal,' the majority of the cast, if not all of the cast, comes from theater, so it's a healthy environment. People come into work and actually go home to their families.
Khandi Alexander
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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
Oriana Fallaci
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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
David Brin
