#know

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bird #flies #generally #happy #human

The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis. ↗

— Jon Postel

#bandwidth #basis #between #certain #come

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. ↗

— John Lennon

#christianity #first #go #i #jesus

But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man moves from confident inexperience through the bitterness of experience, toward the rueful wisdom of self-knowledge. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#life #music #self-knowledge #wisdom #experience

Recognizing who you are is not the subtext of a life. It's the main point. ↗

— Kiana Davenport

#life

The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#entertaining #fun #knowledge #passion #peace

He went to her head like a shot of whiskey but tasted a whole lot better. He sent the same fire curling into the pit of her belly with none of the bitter acid on her tongue. Instead, he was smooth and rich and sweet like fine chocolate, and for once in her life, Abby didn't worry about the treat going straight to her thighs. She rather hoped he would. ↗

— Christine Warren

#life

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! ↗

— Monique Rockliffe

#knowledge-wisdom #writing-craft #life

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind. ↗

— Amelia Gray

#life #life

I was drawn to horses as if they were magnets. It was in my blood. I must have inherited from my grandfather a genetic proclivity toward the equine species. Perhaps there's a quirk in the DNA that makes horse people different from everyone else, that instantly divides humanity into those who love horses and the others, who simply don't know. ↗

— Allan J. Hamilton

#differences #dna #genetics #horses #humanity