#pera

Meanwhile here I am- Earthborn woman, a mere barbaric maula, geting deeper into Imperial Space with each passing light second. I should be trembling with fear, I suppouse. No. Let the Emperor tremble. Laylah is here! ↗

— Robert Silverberg

#space-opera #science

The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#intemperance #violence #violence

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divine-intervention #emotions #energizer #god

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cooperation #earth #environmentalism #ozone-layer #environmentalism

Probablemente de todos nuestros sentimientos el único que no es verdaderamente nuestro es la esperanza. La esperanza le pertenece a la vida, es la vida misma defendiéndose. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#vida #vida

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity. ↗

— John Abizaid

#capacity #cooperation #focus #forces #iraqi

You know as well as I do that counterinsurgency is a very nuanced type of military operation. ↗

— John Abizaid

#i #i do #know #military #military operation

It came to me then in a flash that obviously the temperature of the water was responsible for the nystagmus. ↗

— Robert Barany

#flash #me #obviously #responsible #temperature

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cooperate #create #different #different places #environment

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#believe #cabinet #context #contribute #could