"Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something."

-- Penn Jillette

#Ice Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Tree Quotes

“I don't know the difference between what I want and what I'm trained to want.”
“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”

Source : "Astrology and Religion".
“We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”
“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.”
“I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.”
“As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.”

Source : "The first galactico" by John Carlin, January 18, 2004.
“I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out.”
“The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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