#lit

God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#god #peace #politicians #states #united

One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#harmony #peace #quietness #quotes #recurring

Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak. ↗

— D. Biswas

#flash-fiction #literary #love #romance #death

... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Spiritual feminists, no less than medieval mystics, are searching in the ways made available to them through their culture to separate themselves from everything in their hearts and minds that puts them at odds with the divine plan (and therefore with their own best interests), and to find a true harmony between themselves and the universe. ↗

— Cynthia Eller

#goddess #soul #spirituality #age

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#aspirations #become #confusing #distracting #frustrating

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#charging #few #few things #glory #greater

And I remember looking at Gray Davis and, you know, Gray is the consummate political operative. ↗

— Mike Curb

#davis #gray #gray davis #i #i remember

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#common man #construction #doctor #engineer #general

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#am #big #broadcast #cable #cause