"This is the power of the Goliath, that no one on earth, Clanker or Darwinist, can escape. So we all must learn to share the globe, or perish together!"

-- Scott Westerfeld

#Together Quotes #Earth Quotes #Share Quotes

“We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1978). “The retrieval system: poems”, Viking Pr
“No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.”

Source : Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
“Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.”
“I was born in the USA, which many people still find hard to believe.”
“Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.”

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”
“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

Source : Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”

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