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“A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you”
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“The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.”
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“Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.”
Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”
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“Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.”
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“A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.”
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“A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.”
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“War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.”
Source : "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Chapter XXXII, Conclusion, 1906.
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“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”
Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.127
