"It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more."

-- Hal Higdon

#Long Quotes #Half Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“If you must believe in anything, believe in yourselves, in your senses, in your minds. To accept a religious creed is to accept another mind in place of your own and generally contrary to your own. When religious belief comes in brains go out”
“I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous.”
“I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.”

Source : "Michael Angarano and Danielle Panabaker Talk Sky High". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. August 02, 2005.
“I look forward to the time when the churches come to celebrate and honour the work of animal protection as an imperative arising from their belief in the Creator and in the gospel of the crucified. After all, similarly remarkable things have happened, for example, the growing consensus among churches that the environment should be cared for and protected as a Christian duty--an astonishing turnaround when one considers the prevailing dualism in previous centuries, which expressly discouraged concern for "earthly" matters as distinct from "spiritual" ones.”
“The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.”
“I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.”

Source : "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.
“It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.”

Source : "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.
“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life”

Source : "How Trauma Lodges in the Body". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 9, 2017.

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