#kept

When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#books #did #fiction #i #kept

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#i #jobs #kept #most #notably

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#poetry #simply #touch

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#been #hobby #i #kept #mine

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding. ↗

— Xi Zhi

#leads #skepticism #small #understanding

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#kept #luck #me #miracle #real

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. ↗

— Robert Fraser

#beside #between #kept #larger #life

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy. ↗

— Buck Owens

#had #i #kept #lonely #myself

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#religion #science #skepticism #the-bible #age

Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Legislator. In most modern scientists this belief has died: it will be interesting to see how long their confidence in uniformity survives it. Two significant developments have already appeared—the hypothesis of a lawless sub-nature, and the surrender of the claim that science is true. We may be living nearer than we suppose to the end of the Scientific Age. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#science #skepticism #truth #age