#eagle

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#activities #among #boy #each #eagle

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. ↗

— George Thorogood

#eagles #i #live #world

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time. ↗

— Ross Perot

#find #flock #them #time #you

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. ↗

— Helen Keller

#eagle #feather #hand #his #killed

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said--why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we’re dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. ↗

— Burkhard Bilger

#amygdala #brain #david-eagleman #detail #life-threatening

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hippopotamus #me #mud #soar #wallow

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#eagles #great #great men #like #lofty

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#back #eagles #get #i #i think

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#eagleton-terry #ideology #marxism #life