Sabiki Fishing Quotes & Sayings

Intimacy between people requires closeness as well as distance. It is like dancing. Sometimes we are very close, touching each other or holding each other; sometimes we move away from each other and let the space between us become an area where we can freely move.
To keep the right balance between closeness and distance requires hard work, especially since the needs of the partners may be quite different at a given moment. One might desire closeness while the other wants distance. One might want to be held while the other looks for independence. A perfect balance seldom occurs, but the honest and open search for that balance can give birth to a beautiful dance, worthy to behold. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

In the beginning, there were bacteria ... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction. — David M. Raup

All the Ares missions use Hermes to get to and from Mars. It's really big and cost a lot so NASA only built one. — Andy Weir

Some things you just have to learn to live with. — Katja Millay

Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are. — Edward Fahey

Everyone possesses the power for self-reproduction. — Sunday Adelaja

I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools. — Eli Broad

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. — Ani DiFranco

I know from sitting around with injuries how difficult life will be without racing and riding winners. — Tony McCoy

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers. — Rabindranath Tagore

I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. — Lisa Loeb

Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances. — Marty Rubin

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement. — Peter Block

I never even had the time to read novels. — George McGovern