#eli

After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important. ↗

— Rick Pitino

#believe #i #important #like #people

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#been #billion #chemical #earth #enable

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#egoism #feelings #good #oppose #petty

I didn't want to miss out on my education to model. I can't do just modeling. ↗

— Georgia Jagger

#i #just #miss #model #modeling

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#loneliness #nixon #richard #richard nixon

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#dew #heart #own #tears

It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18) ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#judging #labeling #world-peace #dreams

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#belief

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#belief

A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#belief