#stephen

I have seen a land shining with goodness, where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily as his own, where war and want have ceased and all races live under the same law of love and honour. I have seen a land bright with truth, where a man's word is his pledge and falsehood is banished, where children sleep safe in their mother's arms and never know fear or pain. I have seen a land where kings extend their hands in justice rather than reach for the sword; where mercy, kindness, and compassion flow like deep water over the land, and men revere virtue, revere truth, revere beauty, above comfort, pleasure or selfish gain. A land where peace reigns in the hill, and love like a fire from every hearth; where the True God is worshipped and his ways acclaimed by all. ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#arthurian #pendragon #stephen-lawhead #beauty

Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as Stephen Jay Gould regularly does - because it misses some idealized optimum is therefore gratuitous. Not knowing the objectives of the designer, Gould is in no position to say whether the designer has proposed a faulty compromise among those objectives. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#biology #id #intelligent-design #optimisation #optimization

The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows ↗

— Stephen King

#mind #stephen-king #spirit

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#awe #i #i am #sondheim #stephen

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#completely #faithful #i #indeed #loyal

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema. ↗

— Mary Garden

#book #cornered #drawn #enema #forced

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. ↗

— Michael McKean

#go #hundreds #kind #king #like

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#chicken #horror #i #just #king

You know, after filming the movie the book was still just as big. I think it was actually bigger. I think Stephen King went back and wrote extra pages. He's fantastic. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#after #back #big #bigger #book

Crystal skulls are a metaphor that reality is a consciousness hologram through which we experience virtually. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#crystal #crystal-skulls #quartz-crystal #quartz-skull #stephen-richards