Em Forster The Machine Stops Quotes & Sayings

The servants of God ... whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul. — Thomas Aquinas

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it. — Banana Yoshimoto

Religious teaching in the past has dealt mainly with preparing people for the next world. This is of course of the utmost importance, but we should not allow it to blind us to the fact that there is a Power that can make this life perfect also. — Henry Thomas Hamblin

I don't tell lies about anybody. That's why i win all my wars. — Fela Kuti

But how will I eat cake if my head is over there, and my hands are over here? — Marie Antoinette

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. — Ed Markey

PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART. Promote living art, anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and professionals. — George Maciunas

WHEN WOMEN SUCCEED, AMERICA SUCCEEDED — Barack Obama

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week. — Lynn Austin

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. — Gustave Flaubert

Coconut Pecan Eruption Cake — Julie Brown