Rectilineal Quotes & Sayings

God's provision is timely. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. — Ruth Benedict

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for. — Simon Sinek

Those who have succeeded in procuring this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without uneasiness,
places, sinecures, dignities, power, whether well or ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory capitulations of conscience,
and that they shall enter the tomb with their digestion accomplished. — Victor Hugo

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities. — Martha Plimpton

A good editor is like a pair of Spanx: firming up the body, making the subject look good, and absolutely invisible. — Sandi Layne

This book contains material from the remises of my memory and of my heart. Even if the one has been tampered with and the other does not exist. — Ernest Hemingway,

Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas. — Henri Poincare

When the mouse laughs at the cat, there's a hole nearby. — Nigerian Proverb

Unless I have enough personal power to keep commitments in my daily life, I will be unable to wield magical power. To work magic, I need a basic belief in my ability to do things and cause things to happen. That belief is generated and sustained by my daily actions. — Starhawk

Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad - yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out. — Vaclav Smil

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally. — Thomas Merton

Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup
of everyone's psychological makeup. — Philip Pullman

There must be perfect towns where shadows were strong like buildings, towns secret without coldness, unaware without indifference. — Elizabeth Bowen