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Quotes - Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right
“While
an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his
grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history,
my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site,
grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my
son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in
the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William
More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the
flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper
atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a
brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently
outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the
navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on
the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick,
98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of
Earth’s
Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.”
―
Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
“Guilt
is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of
action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer
guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another
name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes
a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are,
the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
―
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“You
can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
―
Henry Ford
“Yes
We Can!”
―
Barack Obama
“Stop
doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“People
who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will
often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people
around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best
to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The
more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and,
in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
―
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Stop
doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“A
person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction,
and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”
―
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
“All
human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,
compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.”
―
Aristotle, Selected Works
“The
fire on the mountain.” That was Anna. “Alchemy,” she said. “I feel it singing
in my bones.”
“Singing?”
Mary would never understand Anna. The young woman turned away.
Wiseman’s
reply was tinged with respect.
“That
great pair of alchemists, Francis Ransome and Roberta Le More, believed the
work they did affected the world’s spirit, the anima mundi. The Native
Americans they met believed they too could and should interact with the Great
Spirit. They lived with reverence for the land and all its peoples, the
ancestors, the animals, the rocks, the trees, mountains.”
Mary’s
jaw dropped; Caroline glowed; Anna pretended not to listen. Wiseman nodded,
then continued.
“You
mean…?” began Mary.
“Yes,
it could have been so different, a meeting of like-minded earth-based
spiritualities. Just imagine, what could have been?”
―
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
“The
Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant
stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I,
guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
―
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
“Oscar
looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s
ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a
bottlebrush.”
―
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“She
peeped through one of the small holes in the outer wall rising up from the
walkway. The world on the outside was nothing but countryside now. Dirt roads,
like chocolate ribbons, disappeared into woods or green fields in the
distance.”
―
Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“Mary’s
hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white
supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the
Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
―
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
