Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

Our focus must be on making America the best place on earth to do business. ”

If the State cannot survive the anti-slavery agitation, then let the State perish. If the Church must be cast down by the strugglings of Humanity to be free, then let the Church fall and its fragments be scattered to the four winds of Heaven, never more to curse the earth. ”

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place. ”

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. ”

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn. ”

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets. ”

A sense of place is very important in writing. ”

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst. ”

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of. ”

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ”