Deformable Lamp Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy. — Otto E. Neugebauer

So are we acting like the children of a set apart Creator, or are we acting as though we are the children of a father who left his teenagers home while he went away on a long journey, doing as we see fit in the full eyes of the world who are watching to see if we really are set-apart, or just all talk. They want to see if we hold ourselves to God's standards of what is and is not set apart, clean and unclean, good and bad. They want to see if we are really the Children of the Most High. — Tyler Dawn Rosenquist

I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain. — Erin McCarthy

He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. — Diane Cilento

Didn't anyone who changed things ultimately lead some people - perhaps many people - to death, grief, torment? — Greg Bear

No Water made her want to be taken, which was exciting and frightening. Crazy Horse made her want to give, which was fulfilling. She — Win Blevins

What makes today's popular atheism so depressing is neither its conceptual boorishness nor its self-righteousness but simply its cultural inevitability. It is the final, predictable, and unsurprisingly vulgar expression of an ideological tradition that has, after many centuries, become so pervasive and habitual that most of us have no idea how to doubt its premises or how to avert its consequences. This is a fairly sad state of affairs, because those consequences have at times proved quite terrible. — David Bentley Hart

What we have invented, Hans, is a new religion. Oh, not the moralistic and old-fashioned theological kind with that God who does not want us, but one with brutal splendours, magnificent contemporary rites and rituals, scenes, gestures, sacrifices, humiliations, terrors, tremblings, mortifications, degradations, phantasmagoric transfigurations into other realms of feeling, new realisations that will come from this cleansing purge, and then transcendencies unto a New World of our own making, with our own new rules and rewards and justifications. — Larry Kramer

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden. — Carlos Santana

If it's dead, don't go digging it up every five minutes to check if there's a pulse. It's dead; walk away. — Richard Templar

The second you give up is when you start to die. You have to fight to make it. — Joe Hart