#ma

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. ↗

— Heinz R. Pagels

#birth #event #like #may #never

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ↗

— Johnny Ball

#because #crime #desire #discrimination #due

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#atheist #believes #catholicism #grandeur #great

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. ↗

— Saskya Pandita

#behaves #even #foes #his #host

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#perpetual

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. ↗

— Epictetus

#aside #going #knows #man #man pass

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race. ↗

— Lynn Barber

#biographies #human #human race #interviews #like

I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#i #i do #like #material #other

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#did #doubt #i #i am #just

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death