Ribband Of Blue Quotes & Sayings

In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance. — Dinesh D'Souza

In politics there is a large difference between loosing and being defeated. — Chris Matthews

And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second
sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another. — Gary D. Schmidt

Oh, it's mysterious lamplit evenings, here in the galaxy, one after the other. It's one of those nights when I wander from window to window, looking for a sign. But I can't see. Terror and a beauty insoluble are a ribband of blue woven into the fringes of garments of things both great and small. No culture explains, no bivouac offers real haven or rest. But it could be that we are not seeing something. Galileo thought that comets were an optical illusion. This is fertile ground: since we are certain that they're not, we can look at what scientists are saying with fresh hope. What if there are really gleaming castellated cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? What limpid lakes and cool date palms have our caravans passed untried? Until, one by one, by the blindest of leaps, we light on the road to these places, we must stumble in darkness and hunger. — Annie Dillard

I got to try things that I might've been uncomfortable doing if I had been in a larger setting with a studio and producers looking at me. — Ashly Burch

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change. — John Owen

Often, we are too slow to recognize
how much and in what ways we can assist each other
through sharing expertise and knowledge. — Owen Arthur

With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them. — Slavoj Zizek

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I'm very good at noticing talent. I knew he was special then and obviously he is now. — LeBron James

Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis, or technology. Technology is built on science. Science is like the alchemists' uroburos, continually eating its own tail. The process of science doesn't work unless young scientists have the freedom to attack and tear down old dogmas, to engage in an ongoing Titanomachia. Science flourishes where art and free speech flourish. — Neal Stephenson