Emma Goldman Quotes
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
Quotes to Explore
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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People who had, in the past, suffered from technophobia suffered even more. Others took other positions. Things were not so bad. Things could be worse. Worse things could be imagined. Worse things had been endured and triumphed over, in the past. This was not the worst. The worst was yet to come.
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Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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'Some are born crazy,' Amelia said. 'Some achieve craziness. We had craziness thrust upon us.'
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Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
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The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
