"I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old."

-- Elvis Costello

#Promise Quotes #May Quotes #Being True Quotes

“No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do”
“Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.”
“It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.”
“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source : Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”
“One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was... irrecoverably broken at a touch.”

Source : Gilbert Burnet (1840). “Bishop Burnet's history of his own time”, p.397
“This investigation has yielded an unanticipated result that reaction of cyanic acid with ammonia gives urea, a noteworthy result in as much as it provides an example of the artificial production of an organic, indeed a so-called animal, substance from inorganic substances.”
“We're all just kids who grew up way too fast.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 26, 2013
“We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.”

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