Congratulations For Certification Quotes & Sayings

I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way. — Cheryl Strayed

I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart. — Anasazi Foundation

Her silence wasn't unpleasant, not did it imply resentment or sadness. It was transparent, not dense. It took up almost no space. — Roberto Bolano

Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead until you are certified dead; and you can be certified dead only by an officer who himself (herself) holds state certification. The state pursues the certification of death with extraordinary thoroughness - witness the dispatch of a host of forensic scientists and bureaucrats to scrutinize and photograph and prod and poke the mountain of human corpses left behind by the great tsunami of December 2004 in order to establish their individual identities. No expense is spared to ensure that the census of subjects shall be complete and accurate.
Whether the citizen lives or dies is not a concern of the state. What matters to the state and its records is whether the citizen is alive or dead. — J.M. Coetzee

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting? — James Clavell

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction. — Stanley Schmidt