Astro Engineers Club Quotes & Sayings

There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression
and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely. — G.K. Chesterton

We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong. — Simon Sinek

But the path to her death, heartbeat by heartbeat, would be inevitable. — Neil Gaiman

But Gedalah had something in mind. He sent four men to collect a dozen pumpkins, and he had them set in the pylons that supported the overhead power line that ran the train, one pumpkin to each pylon.
"What are they for?" Mendel asked.
"Nothing," Gedaleh said. "They're there to make the Germans wonder why they're there. We've wasted maybe two minutes; they're methodical, they'll waste a lot more. — Primo Levi

Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands. — Abigail Adams

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going. — Maceo Parker

Why did I never do that before? If I'm free, if I can think whatever I choose to think, why have I always avoided imagining forbidden situations? — Paulo Coelho

You draw something ... and you get nothing. The you do the same thing again, but this time you get a star and are praised, how come?
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It's something to do with time ... You got a star because you spent more time on the second drawing. And spent the time in a particular way. We think they have a plan, and that it has to do with time.
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There's no such thing as better ... The second one just fitted in better with their plan. — Peter Hoeg

People who are creative, who do it as a lifestyle, it's kind of silly to make that claim you're done, because you just never know when that spark is going to hit you again. You can't necessarily predict how you're going to feel. In ten years I'll be 58, and I might still feel like making a punk record. — Greg Graffin

My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear. — Rod Stryker

He was like drinking sweetened coffee: a slow warmth that seeped into you and a buzz that built even slower. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

the fuller story of the New Testament is that God's people have been resurrected as the body of Christ. Just as Jesus is the embodiment of the shalom that God intends for creation, the church's role in the drama of Creation is likewise to be the embodiment of God's shalom, albeit in a form that hasn't yet been fully realized. — C. Christopher Smith

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth. — Joseph Campbell