Sokal National Security Quotes & Sayings

Whether I will live a long time or a short time, I'm alive now, at this moment. What I want is to know that there are other things to hope for besides length of life. What I want to know is that it isn't necessary to turn away from thoughts of suffering or death but neither is it necessary to give these thoughts too much time and space. What I want is to be intimate with the knowledge that life is temporary. And then, in the light (or shadow) of that knowledge, to know how to live. How to live now. — Irvin D. Yalom

This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle. — Inbee Park

It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of. — Garrison Keillor

Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she know?
"Alyssians." Bibwit spelled it out.
Her heart gave a little jump. Alyssians? No, they ask too much of me. "I don't think I'm ready for all of this," she said. — Frank Beddor

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others. — Melina Marchetta

As a political movement, feminism seeks to transform society by challenging and changing social institutions. Religion, on the other hand, seeks first to transform individuals through a personal relationship with God, which then results in a desire to work for the transformation of society. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together. — Robin Sloan

My biggest problem is I'm so uninteresting that all these people forget I'm around. — Eugene Richards

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful. — Oksana Baiul

But in the loneliest desert happens the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becomes a lion; he will seize his freedom and be master in his own wilderness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I didn't fall," I stress. "I had a gravitational issue. — Rebecca Maizel

Pastor-theologians exist to embody the evangelical mood, an indicative declaration ("He is risen! He is Lord!") and a concomitant way of being that is attuned to the world as already-not-yet made new in Jesus Christ. — Kevin J. Vanhoozer

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow. — Marianne Williamson