#com

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth. ↗

— Christopher Wren

#earth #eyes #like #men #our

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#coming #daddy #grow #help #hurt

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#being #comfortable #definitely #good #i

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#alive #because #committed #companionship #had

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#been #clear #communicating #easy #fact

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#aristocratic #atmosphere #common #common sense #live

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#beyond #desire #every #income #innate

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#becoming #best #intended #men #prevent

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#chisel #complete #life #life is a #mold

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#men #more #occasions #seldom #supreme