#sf

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#i #percent #probably #satisfied #time

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. ↗

— John Berger

#character #death #itself #modern #notion

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

I won't be satisfied until I've put the entire security industry out of work. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #industry #out #put #satisfied

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#conduct #country #educated #engaging #flagrant

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#beings #cannot #find #human #human beings

I feel SF is going through an experimental phase right now. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#feel #going #i #i feel #now

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#find #growth #little #lucky #mad

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#human #human society #into #itself #nature