Blasimist Quotes & Sayings

What stops most people in their tracks. It's not the dreaming, we all have dreams. It's not the visioning process. It's usually the hard part of the equation. The part where we need to create action. — Tony Curl

Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind's - on the human condition. ... — Carl Sagan

A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa. — Prince Charles

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy. — Josephine Tey

Tonight was 25 July. Seven more days until 1 August. — Rick Riordan

Outlawing the sale or barter of women marked Genghis Khan's first important departure from tribal practices regarding marriage, and gradually through a series of such changes he transformed the social position of his daughters, and thereby of all women, within his burgeoning empire. — Jack Weatherford

The benches were magnificent. They could have been a hundred years old. They were made from solid mahogany, — Lee Child

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? — Nathan Myhrvold

Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind. — Barbara Taylor Bradford

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi) — Idries Shah

On loof, literally 'on rudder', was a Dutch phrase spoken by the captain of a vessel when he wanted to steer a course away from a hazard such as a reef. It became aloof, a word that extended this idea of avoidance and evasion. — Henry Hitchings

Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them ... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is. — John Piper

It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name. — Agnes Macphail

Lord, end my winter, and let my spring begin. I cannot with all my longings raise my soul out of her death and dulness, but all things are possible with thee. I need celestial influences, the clear shinings of thy love, the beams of thy grace, the light of thy countenance, these are the Pleiades to me. I suffer much from sin and temptation, these are my wintry signs, my terrible Orion. Lord, work wonders in me, and for me. Amen. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon