James Irwin Astronaut Quotes & Sayings

The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most important dimension of human existence: the sacred, the stillness, the formless, the divine. — Eckhart Tolle

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties. — Mark McKinnon

You're right,' said the corporal. 'It serves editors like that right. They only stir the people up. Last year when I was still only a lance-corporal I had an editor under me and he called me nothing else but a disaster for the army, but when I taught him unarmed drill and he sweated, he always used to say: "Please respect the human being in me." But I gave him hell for his human being when the order was "flat down" and there were a lot of puddles in the barracks courtyard.
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As I said, he was always on about his "human being" and nothing else. Once when he was reflecting over a puddle in which he had to plop down when he did his "flat down" I said to him: "When you're always talking about a human being even when you're in the mud remember that man was created out of the dust of the ground and it must have been O.K. for him. — Jaroslav Hasek

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility. — Alan Cohen

us. The little shit really digs Celia here. Been seein' her — Kirk Alex

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled ... — Christopher Hitchens

For me, there's never been anyone else. It's always been you. — Michelle Madow

This was great fun and a nice paycheck and then, as these things happen, the show was canceled. — Michael Storm

I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years and years fine-tuning, revising, editing, etc. What inspires me? Who knows. I am not inspired that much. That's why I write long form fiction - I am not much of a short story writer. Ideas come seldom, but when a good one comes, I really stick to it and see it out. I'm a problem-solver - I've never thrown out an entire manuscript; I've always forced myself to repair it until it was a lovable thing again. — Porochista Khakpour

How could someone who has never lost a parent, a lover, or a best friend have the faintest clue about what any of this means? — Lena Dunham

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power. — Nancy Pearcey

Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you. — Kristin Hannah