Concising Quotes & Sayings

The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second. When we look up into the daylight sky, we are not seeing the sun as it currently is but as it was about eight minutes ago, since it takes that long for the light radiating from this familiar star to travel 93 million miles to Earth. Similarly, when the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) receives light waves from the depths of the universe, those waves will have originated from points as far as 76 sextillion (76,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles away. It will have taken those waves some 13 billion years to arrive on earth, meaning they left their source about a million years after the big bang, and roughly nine to ten years before Earth even formed. — Richard Kurin

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train. — Oscar Wilde

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change. — Jim C. Hines

Even though ... 9/11 happened because ... Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy ... , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished. — Vincent Bugliosi

Sickness is deep within the soul of our society - and that has always been God's exclusive territory. — Billy Graham

The people who pray together build together a better world — Ocean Crisstopher Poet

In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It's not necessary that the lies be particularly believable, but merely that they be erected as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. — Derrick Jensen

The boss is not paying you. They just keep the money for you only. New customers who actually paid — Henry Ford

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me. — Sylvia Plath

For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one. — Hesiod

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer. — Gregory Maguire

Love is the only war worth dying for. But every time I say 'please, come back', I feel like I'm trying to find a dirty needle into a haystack. — Andrea Gibson

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations. — Ron Lewis

I'm always proud to play for Switzerland, and that will always be something really special. — Stanislas Wawrinka

A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. — Oscar De La Renta