Lyra Belacqua Quotes & Sayings

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished. — Melanie Chisholm

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams

If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see. — Taylor Wilson

The incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable. — Marya Mannes

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power. — Martin Luther King Jr.

No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the solar system. — Trevor Paglen

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it. — Woodrow Wilson

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end ... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it. — Chalmers Johnson