"Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing."

-- Thomas Aquinas

#Eternity Quotes #Lacking Quotes

“Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would offered much in the way of determined opposition. William Herndon said that they always thanked the Lord when a corporation came knocking at their office door to hire them.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.
“[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a society that places human values before materialistic ones, that has a little less head and a little more heart, that is dominated by self-interest and loves its neighbor more. And they were persuaded that group protest of a militant nature would advance those goals.”
“It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.”

Source : Washington Gladden (1883). “Things New and Old in Discourses of Christian Truth and Life”
“... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe in anything despite the complete lack of evidence is, in fact, irrational.”
“A major boom in real stock prices in the U.S. after 'Black Tuesday' brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.”

Source : "Speculative bubbles don't just pop - they may deflate and reflate" by Robert J. Shiller, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.
“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.”

Source : "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.
“When I was at Disney and was a character art manager and handing out artwork that had to be inked we had a thing where if there was any lettering on it I'd hear, "I don't letter," and I said, "Look at it. It's drawing. Ink the drawing." I just learned from Mike Aarons how each letter was just part of the drawing.”

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