Quotes of: Expedite Keyword

The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

Julius Streicher

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

Possession and loving are concepts that damn each other.

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree: A Novel

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that L...

William Least Heat-Moon

So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

Philippe Perrin

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind of each is as everywhere present to the other, and as received and as unchallenged, as falling snow?

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern of the pump. In that case, what a felicate beveridge is quaffed by the drinkers; medicated with the sweat and the dirt, and dandriff; and the abominab...

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" sha...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block. The Chiense say that we live in the world of ten thousand things. Each of the ten thousand things cries out to us precisely nothing.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mum. We doused the burning bush and cannot rekindle it;...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We s...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole i...

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters