"Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know."

-- Ann Druyan

#Believe Quotes #Atheism Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think we need to remember...that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.”
“I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.”
“How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.”
“All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world.”
“How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.”

Source : Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.158, Macmillan
“You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.”
“When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.”

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