#spontaneous

Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#any #appear #care #context #courage

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty. ↗

— George Will

#between #born #end #freedom #government

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing. ↗

— Kathie Lee Gifford

#me #nothing #spontaneous

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#feelings #origin #overflow #poetry #powerful

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#combustion #fire #must #result #set

Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#ago #arose #because #began #billion

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#created #different #different kinds #kinds #many

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#defined #force #human #human rights #internalized

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#book #i #like #makes #more