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“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
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“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”
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“We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.”
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“The Son of God died; it is by all means to be believed because it is absurd. And he was buried and rose again; the fact is certain, because it is impossible.”
Source : Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.876, Jazzybee Verlag
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“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.”
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“Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.”
Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1875). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.5
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“I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.”
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“It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.”
Source : Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”