"While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled."

-- Helen Maria Williams

#Power Quotes #Wish Quotes #May Quotes

“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.”
“Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.”
“Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.”
“Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.”
“Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.”

Source : Percival Lowell, Lowell Observatory (1915). “Memoir on a trans-Neptunian planet”
“We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.”
“Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare.”
“For a married woman to flirt is a sin.”

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