Romantic Astronomy Quotes & Sayings

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. — Emma Stone

Servitude degrades people to such a point that they come to like it. — Luc De Clapiers

If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here." (Exodus 33:15) As a reminder, where was here? It was the place of lack, adversity, stress, and hardship - the desert. Moses gave a reply that's perplexing, even mind-boggling, to the average person. In essence he declared, "If I have to choose between Your presence and Your blessing, I'll take Your presence - even if it's in a place of lack and hardship - over Your blessing in a great environment." Was Moses delusional? Had the desert sun distorted his sense of judgment? No. His internal GPS was set on what was best. It was directing him to make the best choice even when God was offering him a good choice, one that common sense and uncomfortable circumstances would have dictated he accept. — John Bevere

What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth. — John Webster

The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music. — Neville Weston

Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is. — Kevin DeYoung

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain. — Chester A. Arthur

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man — E. E. Cummings

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent. — Jackie Jackson

I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer. — Gary Johnson

But Jakob had the gift of confession, could talk about how he wanted to touch her and be with her, with all the daring and athletic skill he brought to riding a unicycle or walking on a tightrope. He was small and compact and muscular, and also intellectually muscular, mentally something of an acrobat. Sometimes she felt that those intellectual acrobatics were a bit tiring; at those times she felt less as if they were feeling everything together, more as if she were simply his audience, someone to applaud his latest leap through the burning hoop of existentialism and his backflip onto the trampoline of nonconformity. But — Joe Hill

Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white. — Kresley Cole

The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life. — Henry Mills Alden