#lion

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#curses #prayer #business

You have 1 billion people using the Internet with 200 million of those now using broadband internet connections, so the Internet has become a powerful network. It can carry calls. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#billion #broadband #calls #carry #connections

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

A little rebellion is a good thing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#rebellion #revolution #change

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you! ↗

— T. Harv Eker

#spiritual-growth #wealthy #change

When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#change

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#change

Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mandos #manwë #silmarillion #varda #beauty

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#literature #reader #rebellion #writers #writing

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight. ↗

— George C. Williams

#anything #avoidance #because #being #fight