When you start in life, if you find you are wrongly placed, don’t hesitate to change, but don’t change because troubles come up and difficulties arise. You must meet and overcome and conquer them. And in meeting and overcoming and conquering them, you will make yourself stronger for the future. (Charles M. Schwab)
In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child? – Daniel J. Siegel.
Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes (Iain H. Murray, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981)
If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about (Harmony Korine)
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It’s always on. There is always someone trying to beat me (Mark Cuban)
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time (Philip Emeagwali)
Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all (“Steps Going Up” aka “Guillotine” aka “Men Must Die”) – Cornell Woolrich, The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich: An Inner Sanctum Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories
I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God? – Catherynne M. Valente, The Habitation of the Blessed
But I was – not quite happy. Pending happy. I knew this was not really my life – it was a borrowed life. One that I was temporarily wearing until I could sort out my own.
I just want that sensation you have in dreams when you fly to be real (Janet Montgomery)