Flestar Quotes & Sayings

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. — Rumi

There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing as cosmology or physics (mathematicians conceived of black holes long before astronomers actually found any), and allows more freedom of expression than poetry, art, or music (which depends heavily on properties of the physical universe). Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood. — Paul Lockhart

Now, after I have published a few books, I can clearly feel the impact of censorship when I write. For example, I'll think of a sentence, and then realize that it will for sure get deleted. Then I won't even write it down. — Murong Xuecun

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine. — Carol Rifka Brunt

Jesus doesn't lead you out of your day, He leads you into it. — Todd Stocker

Have you been infected with the toxin of denial? Here are the top five signs to help you find out: If you think you are above certain things happening to you, you are in denial. Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall. PROVERBS 16:18 If you think you have the power to plan your own future, you are in denial. We can make our own plans, but the LORD gives the right answer. PROVERBS 16:1 If you think you are the only one who can get it right, you are in denial. People may be pure in their own eyes, but the LORD examines their motives. PROVERBS 16:2 If you think you are never wrong and it's always someone else's fault, you are in denial. Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor. PROVERBS 29:23 If you have a rebuttal to anyone and everything, you are in denial. Too much talk leads to sin. — Kasey Van Norman

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements. — Amos Bronson Alcott

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My love was Bob Dylan, but as I got older I realized a good ballad was a good ballad. — Bonnie Raitt