#connection

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#connection #conscription #dates #except #existence

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#between #citizen #connection #country #direction

I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#american #being #close #connection #dad

Which is good, in a way, because the danger in doing something like STAR TREK is that you end up in that pigeonhole and you're doing that the rest of your life. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#connection #direct #direct connection #fun #handled

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#art #connection #story #art

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#connections #direct #emotional #how #largely

The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others. ↗

— Titus Salt

#cholera #connection #duty #every #every man

We all are so deeply interconnected; do good for any one and that will be reflected. ↗

— Amit Ray

#love #meditation #life

When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. ↗

— James Sanborn

#accepted #actually #agency #between #commission

These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness. ↗

— Dave Sim

#away #between #came #commonly #connections