#sign

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bringing #brought #center #church #election

The best thing about being married and marriage is: when the two of you never feel that you are married or ever shall or ever were. You simply love one another. ↗

— Amarjyoti Acharya

#love

Deep within every modern American female, whether she will admit it or not, lingers the image of an ideal man. It isn't necessarily photo quality, it rarely involves specific physical characteristics. No, this image is more like the promise of a feeling, a swept-off-your-feet, powerless-to-control-it, how-awesome-is-this-guy sentiment that she hopes someone special will someday inspire. Left to its own devices, the brain will keep this feeling dormant until truly warranted by a real-life flesh-and-blood person. ↗

— Libby Street

#inspirational

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#intellectual #science #design

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#genius #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

A man who has come to the full realization of his responsibility to men won't stick to one man. It will be foolhardy if he does that. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #mission #motivational #purpose #responsibility

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#observation #resignation #wisdom #inspirational

The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does. People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing. There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #myth #wonder #design

...he wondered if maybe just occasionally the gods designed a woman fit for a king or a prince and then gave her to an ordinary man. Maybe they did such a thing once in a while, knowing an ordinary man would treasure her more, love her better. Maybe they even let him keep her - for a while. ↗

— Ellen O'Connell

#design

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person fair, and feel a certain zest To bear your body's weight upon my breast; So subtly is the fume of life designed, To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind, And leave me once again undone, possessed. Think not for this, however, the poor treason Of my stout blood against my staggering brain, I shall remember you with love, or season My scorn with pity, - let me make it plain: I find this frenzy insufficient reason For conversation when we meet again. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#love #design