"I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not."

-- Jon Spaihts

#Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes #Promise Quotes

“If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.”
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The name Bei Dao was actually given to me with the help of friends. When we were publishing our unofficial magazine, Today, we wanted to avoid being harassed by the police so we were trying to think of names that we could use. It was done very casually.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.”
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
“Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.”
“Music has no limits of a life-span.”
“If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.”

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