#tar

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#night-sky #science #stars #science

...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. ↗

— John Green

#hazel #john-green #protagonist #the-fault-in-our-stars #advertising

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country. ↗

— Ellen Wilkinson

#country #given #hard #house #lives

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#bob-woodward #government #military #obama-s-war #war

Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#commodity #contractor #military #military

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#arab-women #army #military #role-of-women-in-islam #women

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#oath #obey #military

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #stars

I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend... ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#stars #stars

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ↗

— John Green

#infinities #infinity #tfios #stars