#alien

And the strangest thing about the nightmare street was that none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They were only sold there. Where were the workshops, the factories, where were the farmers, the craftsmen, the miners, the weavers, the chemists, the carvers, the dyers, the designers, the machinists, where were the hands, the people who made? Out of sight, somewhere else. Behind walls. All the people in all the shops were either buyers or sellers. They had no relation to the things but that of possession. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#design

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills. ↗

— Criss Jami

#apologetics #christianity #christians #divine #divine-intervention

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #darwinian #difficult #evolution #imagine

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

#atheists #civil #civil society #conscience #consciences

We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#because #border #border security #concern #driver

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#engagement #express #feel #i #i feel

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. ↗

— Robert Orben

#any #ask #been #illegal #illegal aliens

For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#audrey #audrey hepburn #else #every #hepburn

I looked like an alien, and in front of the most beautiful people on TV. ↗

— Christine Taylor

#beautiful #beautiful people #front #i #like

I don't like alien films where you don't get to see the aliens. ↗