He’d grown unused to woods like this. He’d become accustomed to the Northwest, evergreen and shaded dark. Here he was surrounded by soft leaves, not needles; leaves that carried their deaths secretly inside them, that already heard the whispers of Autumn. Roots and branches that knew things (Michael Montoure, Slices)
Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature (Lailah Gifty Akita)
When you have to work, work with a smile (Kapil Dev)
The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that (Emma Bonino)
I can stand what I know. It’s what I don’t know that frightens me. (Frances Newton)
Words are memes that can be pronounced. (Daniel C. Dennett)
The longer you drift the more you will learn. What you learn affects the kind of person you end up turning into (Chang Ta-chun)
It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man’s sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover (Graham Greene, The Quiet American)
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong (John Lennon)
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we’re simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two (Neil deGrasse Tyson)