#hem

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#ask #attend #because #become #cravings

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#i #limitations #respect #them #use

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. ↗

— John Updike

#been #conditioned #costs #newness #them

What intrigued me more than anything else was finding out the way in which everything, all of creation - all of it! - was held together by invisible chemical bonds, and I found a strange, inexplicable comfort in knowing that somewhere, even though we couldn't see it in our own world, there was a real stability. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#nerdiness #science #science

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#eternity #future #mathematics #physics #politics

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen

When she awoke, the world was on fire. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#awoke #fire #full-metal-alchemist #naruto #shay

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#dream #madness #youth #dreams

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#need #quiet #remember #than #them

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #spring #problems