Roger Shimomura Quotes & Sayings

What are we?" he asked. "Why, we are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts. Creation turns in its abyss. We have bothered it, dreaming ourselves to shapes. The void is filled with slumbers; ten billion on a billion on a billion bombardments of light and material that know not themselves, that sleep moving and move but finally to make an eye and waken on themselves. Among so much that is flight and ignorance, we are the blind force that gropes like Lazarus from a billion-light-year tomb. We summon ourselves. We say, O Lazarus Life Force, truly come ye forth. So the Universe, a motion of deaths, fumbles to reach across Time to feel its own flesh and know it to be ours. We touch both ways and find each other miraculous because we are One. — Ray Bradbury

People with the growth mindset know that it takes time for potential to flower. — Carol S. Dweck

In a slick manifesto called Cosmos, Carl Sagan artfully packaged his own creed: The Cosmos is all there is, or was, or ever will be. — Charles W. Colson

Love requited is a short circuit. — Samuel Beckett

It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting. — Peter Greenaway

The shepherds made haste, partly no doubt from human curiosity, in order to see this great thing that had been announced to them. But surely, too, they were driven by their joy on hearing that now, truly, the Saviour, the Messiah, the Lord had been born, the one so long awaited - and they would be the first to see him. How many Christians make haste today, where the things of God are concerned? Surely if anything merits haste - so the evangelist is discreetly telling us - then it is the things of God. — Pope Benedict XVI

Nothing never happens when we pray — Benjamin Johncock

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. — Charles James

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sometimes it was better to keep Pandora's box closed. — Melissa De La Cruz

A true sage is simple like a child. — Debasish Mridha