#pac

Fraj-ile," I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#fragile #isle #pacific #sharks #beauty

[an encounter in space] "Some celestial event. No--no words--no words to describe it. Poetry! They should have sent a poet. So beautiful. So beautiful...I had no idea. I had no idea. ↗

— Carl Sagan as Ellie Arroway

#space-and-cosmos #wonder #beauty

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#myspace #mystery #sexuality #social-networking #youth

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#rules #space #business

You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm. ↗

— Bill Buford

#calm #modern #pace #traditional-work #business

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write. ↗

— Martin Luther

#impact #writing #change

I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore. ↗

— Brenna Yovanoff

#identity #the-space-between #change

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true. ↗

— Peter Singer

#also #i #i think #idea #impact

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#capacity #change #decision #every #excuse

In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness to be killed - on a massive scale is responsible for a lot of solutions. The most recent mass application of violence liberated Kuwait. The most recent mass application of violence on a global scale alone cleansed the world of the Third Reich. Nonviolence and passive resistance did less than nothing to stop Hitler and his henchmen. The Atlantic slave trade wasn't stopped by 'dialogue' or 'passive resistance' or conferences, but by the opened gunports of the Royal Navy; Dachau and Chang-I weren't liberated with pamphlets. ↗

— Markham Shaw Pyle

#violence #war #change