Derakhshan Michael Quotes & Sayings

So nearly everyone had an opinion. Polls showed that most supported the Russell program, an informal name for Sax's plans to terraform the planet by all means possible, as fast as they could. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Humor is the fastest, fleetest way of giving -it can change pain to joy in a mere millisecond. — Stephen G. Post

Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more. — Constance O'Day-Flannery

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation. — Jess Glynne

Two things in India are religion - one is cricket, and one is movies - these are two things. — Preity Zinta

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock. — Donella H. Meadows

This leaves us with the urgent question: How can we be or become a caring community, a community of people not trying to cover the pain or to avoid it by sophisticated bypasses, but rather share it as the source of healing and new life? It is important to realize that you cannot get a Ph.D. in caring, that caring cannot be delegated by specialists, and that therefore nobody can be excused from caring. Still, in a society like ours, we have a strong tendency to refer to specialists. When someone does not feel well, we quickly think, 'Where can we find a doctor?' When someone is confused, we easily advise him to go to a counselor. And when someone is dying, we quickly call a priest. Even when someone wants to pray we wonder if there is a minister around. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Chet Raymo is professor of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. He is a convinced naturalist with a strong mystical bent. Few writers in our time are able to open up vistas of grandeur in the world of objects and entities as he does. In his book Skeptics and True Believers:The Exhilarating Connection between Science and Religion, he illustrates in his brilliant and inimitable style the marvels that are all around us in this universe. — Ravi Zacharias

Love is an industrious affection; it sets the head studying for God, hands working, feet running in the ways of his commandments. — Thomas Watson

All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do. — Vonda N. McIntyre

The thing that really struck me was how many firms that we think of as strictly civilian had ties to the Pentagon. Companies like Apple, Starbucks, Oakley the sunglasses manufacturer. Even Google, and a lot of big corporations like PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Nestle, that you don't normally think of as defense contractors. — Nick Turse

Be attentive to the voice of grace. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences. — Sarah Dessen