Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitable with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
..........— Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962), social activist, wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You Learn by Living (1960), p. 63.

That's a Quote we ought to highlight in the P & R Threads ....

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

That's a Quote we ought to highlight in the P & R Threads ....

My thoughts exactly!

[gmw]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitable with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
..........— Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962), social activist, wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You Learn by Living (1960), p. 63.

Hmmm... I'm not sure I've met too many mature persons.

Love the quote.

[boxcorner]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitable with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
..........— Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962), social activist, wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. You Learn by Living (1960), p. 63.

A quality that few leaders have, regrettably. Nice quotation.

[BenBanned]

Sometimes it's not a quote that moves me the most but the way words are used.
ex: Over the summer I read The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky and really what I remember from the novel are the words "master hands".
I'm a wierdo.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by BenBanned

Sometimes it's not a quote that moves me the most but the way words are used.
ex: Over the summer I read The House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky and really what I remember from the novel are the words "master hands".
I'm a wierdo.

Looks like an extremely interesting book!

[BenBanned]

And an excellent choice if your new to Dostoyevsky.

[WT Sharpe]

.....They who take only a few points into account find it easy to pronounce judgment.
..........— Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher. From The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant.

[Vector]

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[boxcorner]

"Henry then thought he could make the past different by telling of it differently."

The Secret Report of Friar Otto, by Sam Smith, page 42.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Suppose your father or mother—let's say father for the sake of definiteness—walked into this room at the ordinary human pace of walking. And suppose just behind him was his father. And just behind him was his father. How long would we have to wait before the ancestor who enters the now-open door is a creature who normally walked on all fours? The answer is a week.
..........—Carl [Edward] Sagan (1934 – 1996), American astrophysicist and author. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006), Chapter 3: "The Organic Universe."

[Bilbo1967]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Suppose your father or mother—let's say father for the sake of definiteness—walked into this room at the ordinary human pace of walking. And suppose just behind him was his father. And just behind him was his father. How long would we have to wait before the ancestor who enters the now-open door is a creature who normally walked on all fours? The answer is a week.
..........—Carl [Edward] Sagan (1934 – 1996), American astrophysicist and author. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006), Chapter 3: "The Organic Universe."

Must be a hell of a sized room

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....Suppose your father or mother—let's say father for the sake of definiteness—walked into this room at the ordinary human pace of walking. And suppose just behind him was his father. And just behind him was his father. How long would we have to wait before the ancestor who enters the now-open door is a creature who normally walked on all fours? The answer is a week.
..........—Carl [Edward] Sagan (1934 – 1996), American astrophysicist and author. The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006), Chapter 3: "The Organic Universe."

Love that quote/example! That's a great book!

[WT Sharpe]

15....And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable—nay, letter by letter. For though it is only by reason of the opposition of letters in the function of signs, to sounds in function of signs, that the study of books is called "literature," and that a man versed in it is called, by the consent of nations, a man of letters instead of a man of books, or of words, you may yet connect with that accidental nomenclature this real principle;—that you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly "illiterate," uneducated person; but that if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter,—that is to say, with real accuracy,—you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.
..........— John Ruskin (1819-1900), British writer. Sesame and Lillies (New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1871), Lecture 1 "SESAME: Of Kings' Treasuries," pages 65-66.

[BenG]

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere to anywhere, for in the deep sea there is no compass but nearer and farther, higher and lower, the jellyfish hangs and sways; pulses move slight and quick within it, as the vast diurnal pulses beat in the moondriven sea. Hanging, swaying, pulsing, the most vulnerable and insubstantial creature, it has for its defense the violence and power of the whole ocean, to which it has entrusted its being, its going, and its will.

But here rise the stubborn continents. The shelves of gravel and the cliffs of rock break from water baldly into air, that dry, terrible outerspace of radiance and instability, where there is no support for life. And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking….

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven