Pesnik I Mesec Quotes & Sayings

I think that you have mistaken pride for faith, as so many do. — Geraldine Harris

There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship. — Swami Dhyan Giten

Islands are known to differ in the food supply available to ground finches, mainly seeds. — Peter R. Grant

Nobody in the government is talking. They say it's a case of national security. — Kenneth Eade

If we're stuck on one world, we're limited to a single case; we don't know what else is possible. Then - like an art fancier familiar only with Fayoum tomb paintings, a dentist who knows only molars, a philosopher trained merely in NeoPlatonism, a linguist who has studied only Chinese, or a physicist whose knowledge of gravity is restricted to falling bodies on Earth - our perspective is foreshortened, our insights narrow, our predictive abilities circumscribed. By contrast, when we explore other worlds, what once seemed the only way a planet could be turns out to be somewhere in the middle range of a vast spectrum of possibilities. When we look at those other worlds, we begin to understand what happens when we have too much of one thing or too little of another. We learn how a planet can go wrong. — Carl Sagan

Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon. — Fay Weldon

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. — Charley Reese

Wounds do eventually heal after a fashion, even emotional ones. What seems bad one day, is not quite as bad a year from now. — Cindy Vine

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

There is a part of yourself that is not subject to change, it is the silent witness behind the scenes. That is essentially your spirit, the spirit being an abstract but real force. It is as real as gravity. It is as real as time. It is incomprehensible. It is mysterious but it is powerful and it is eternal. — Deepak Chopra