Decelerated Quotes & Sayings

Her careless beauty so huge it had to walk a few paces ahead of her, announcing itself. — Jandy Nelson

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us. — Aeschylus

Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self-esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. Yet they need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can each perform the greatest miracle in the world. They can each come back from the dead ... — Og Mandino

So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression.
Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area.

What should we do?

Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to
surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy
the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace? — Dwight D. Eisenhower

On one thing most physicists agree. If the amount of dark energy in our universe were only a little bit different than what it actually is, then life could never have emerged. A little larger, and the universe would have accelerated so rapidly that matter in the young universe could never have pulled itself together to form stars and hence complex atoms made in stars. And, going into negative values of dark energy, a little smaller and the universe would have decelerated so rapidly that it would have recollapsed before there was time to form even the simplest atoms. Out of all the possible amounts of dark energy that our universe might have, the actual amount lies in the tiny sliver of the range that allows life. As before, one is compelled to ask the question: Why does such fine-tuning occur? — Alan Lightman

If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day. — Emmet Fox

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff ... And it does take courage. — Barbara Cook

I shared a life and a home with a man I loved, and if he wanted to be fucked, then I would do it! — Aimee Nicole Walker

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex. — John Baldessari

The vast unfathomable sea
Is but a Notion-unto me. — Lewis Carroll

To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us. — Fatos Nano

All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part. — Michael Douglas

It is essential that there should not only be a limit on campaign spending but it should be required to say where that money is spent and how it is spent. I think there has been more abuse in campaign spending, actually, than in campaign contributors. — Bill Scott

I always tell my mom I don't have regular problems. I have problems, like, what type of girl is going to say they're pregnant by me today? Those are the types of issues I have. — Fetty Wap

Let the sky rain potatoes," said a musing voice. "Let it thunder to the tune of Greensleeves. — Cassandra Clare