"Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall."

-- Annie Dillard

#Time Quotes #Men Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I do know the older I get, the more I'm referencing music I heard as a kid.”
“Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.”
“The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.”
“People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That's only 30 days out of 365. And it's for entertainment.”
“Experimental confirmation of a prediction is merely a measurement. An experiment disproving a prediction is a discovery.”
“I don't go to McDonald's anymore. After I saw Super Size Me... no way!”
“A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.”
“On my second space walk, I was riding the Canadarm, heading down toward the payload bay of the space shuttle, and I could see the space shuttle highlighted against the Earth in the background, and there was this black, infinite, hostile void of space. I remember looking down at the Earth and thinking, "Beneath me is a 4Â½-billion-year-old planet, upon which the entire history of the human species has taken place." That was an incredibly humbling moment, and I had a bit of an epiphany.”

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