Quotes of: Beyond Keyword

The only absolute truth is change, and death is the only way to stop change. Life is a series of judgments on changing situations, and no ideal, no belief fits every solution. Yet humans need to believe in something beyond themselves. Perhaps all int...

The Parafaith War

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as...

Peter Singer

Pregnancies and births happen in their own time, regardless of our conscious wishes, hopes, efforts, and fantasies. We may decide we want a child and make every effort to have one, and yet, whether it happens or not is beyond the control of even the ...

Robert Hopcke

Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other’s deficiencies to see their possibilities.

Church Planting Landmines

We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

Clockwork Prince

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A Circle of Quiet

Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

Cosmos

The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.

The Cold War

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

The Duchess of Malfi

The threat of war hung on the air like a thick fog and it blinded him until he could see nothing beyond the haze. Even the stars grew faint.

Dominion

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Dune

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

Unless you realize that there is a sun beyond comprehension of this limited mind... the life shall remain confined within a Box...

Destiny Re scripted

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

The Eyre Affair

What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.

Eurydice in the Underworld

He did not care about titles and was proud to be a farmer beyond all else.

The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

The Fountainhead

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

The Grotesque

...and no man gave you a fur coat without expecting to receive something in return. Except for one's husband, of course, who expected nothing beyond modest gratitude.

A God in Ruins

Dream high, beyond the sky; no matter wings so small, keep vision bright; just dare to learn, for you are born to fly.

GWG