Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

We're only human beings and cannot always be in control of our lives. ”

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not. ”

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ”

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person. ”

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. ”

I don't think estates are grim places. ”

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really. ”

There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights. ”

Every time scoring against a former club is special because you know everyone around the place. ”

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. ”