Laterally Positioned Quotes & Sayings

Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation. — Gene Wolfe

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal ... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation. — Soren Kierkegaard

The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries. — Herbert Hoover

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda

I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world. — Robert Webb

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. — Cameron Sinclair

A peregrine falcon," a passenger said, "lives at 2180 Yonge Street in Toronto, on the corner of Yonge and Eglinton. It sits high on the Canadian Tire building, hunts from there, brings prey, and in full view of everyone in the offices, tears it to pieces. Blood everywhere. — Kathleen Winter

If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first. — Philip Larkin

After investigating the UFO phenomenon all over the world, after studying thousands of pages of released government documents, and interviewing eyewitnesses and insiders, including generals, intelligence officers, cosmonauts and astronauts, military and commercial pilots, I do not have the shadow of a doubt anymore that we are indeed visited by extraterrestrial intelligences. The evidence just does not allow another conclusion. — Michael Hesemann

Perfection scribbled out or the imperfection that makes you, me, anyone perfect and complete because it includes the truth of our mortality. Get — Samantha Hunt

Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work. — Swami Vivekananda

the abuse of the subjective in some circles cannot exclude the 'mystical' and emotional dimensions of Christian experience. — Timothy J. Keller

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization. — Louis D. Brandeis