#ratio

We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#attempting #citizenship #doing #downloaded #had

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die. ↗

— Curtis Sliwa

#complete #die #frustration #get #go

At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, 'I'm not worthy,' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us. ↗

— Mark Hamill

#affection #auditorium #because #before #bigger

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #science #age

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#age

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books. ↗

— Omar Torrijos Herrera

#books #communism #hands #i #like

You want to change things, Joe, but you can’t. Not like this. You can’t save what’s been left behind. Only what’s in front of you. ↗

— Maria Rachel Hooley

#change

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind. 'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom ↗

— Joseph Goldstein

#inspirational #change

But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future. ↗

— Jax Garren

#beauty