I have several close friends who are insomniacs. Over the years, I’ve heard their stories about being up in the middle of the night, completely awake. I see them yawn at 11 A.M. and know that, regardless of what they are doing, they’d probably rather be in bed sleeping. I’ve always had sympathy for them, but I’ve never really understood it (Brad Feld)
When thought becomes excessively painful action is the finest remedy. (Salman Rushdie)
The library serves as a gathering place for friends whoshare the love of books. It further serves as a resource for those who escape the pressure of everydaylife, doing it by losing themselves in the written word. (Kristen Ashley, Breathe)
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. (Saul Alinsky)
Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children’s welfare so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse. (J. K. Maclean)
Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget (Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars)
Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well (Emma Donoghue, Room)
Only fools prefer the past! – Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
But in my clutching, it began to slip away. I softened my grasp and the sense of fluidity returned, I rode it like a wave. …This paradox provoked in me a sense of freedom and relief-relief that what I was always aware of on a faint, subconscious level was a strong and satisfying truth (Andrew McCarthy, The Longest Way Home: One Man’s Quest for the Courage to Settle Down)
We fight for a vision of the world that is both traditional and Faustian, that allies enrootment and disinstallation, the citizen’s freedom and imperial service to the community-as-a-people, passionate creativity and critical reason, an unshakeable loyalty and an adventurous curiosity (WWF 267) – Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight