Tranquility Base Quotes & Sayings

Big Brother is home. He is installed in the item you just dragged home from the Apple store. — Julian Assange

You cannot rely on others to provide your happiness to you. No one can accomplish that on a consistent enough basis. Your happiness is entirely your responsibility. — D.S. Luca

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel

You tell anyone I cried, I'll find a dead fish, put it in a sock, hide it in your room, and let it putrefy. — Pierce Brown

No one has asked me a question yet, but I will not shut up. — Elizabeth McCracken

In her book Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, Carol Tavris recounts a story about a Bengali cobra that liked to bite passing villagers. One day a swami - a man who has achieved self-mastery - convinces the snake that biting is wrong. The cobra vows to stop immediately, and does. Before long, the village boys grow unafraid of the snake and start to abuse him. Battered and bloodied, the snake complains to the swami that this is what came of keeping his promise.
"I told you not to bite," said the swami, "but I did not tell you not to hiss."
"Many people, like the swami's cobra, confuse the hiss with the bite," writes Tavris. — Susan Cain

Death is a doorway,think before you knock it — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Neil's voice was calm, confident, most of all clear. "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It was 4:17:42 P.M. EDT, Sunday, July 20, 1969. — Alan Shepard

I think now that this obsession with identifying racism, which I saw so often among Somalis too, was really a comfort mechanism, to keep people from feeling personally inadequate and to externalize the causes of their unhappiness. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You are in good shape for a dead man. — Mario Stinger

It's pathetic - how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great. Trudy — Markus Zusak

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'? — Plato

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? — Henry James

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point. — Paul Giamatti

With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees. — Soren Kierkegaard