#sent

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#first-sentence #opening-lines #first-sentence

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#australian #confidence #government #i #levels

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #mindful-eating #mindfulness #present-moment

The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#choices #free-will #future #god #life

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#backward #begin #believed #epochs #i

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. ↗

— Orson Welles

#excite #flying #hamlet #means #playing

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#cause #go #present #present world #sought

There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus. ↗

— Joshilyn Jackson

#first-sentence #opening-lines #jesus

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. ↗

— George Bancroft

#consent #crown #envy #excite #glory