Quotes of: Stephen-hawking Keyword

...There's a bit of a difference between a guy lying back being all sexy and come hither and mmrowr-worthy, and a man who has a toy stuffed parrot hanging from his nips.

The Importance of Being Alice

Are you going to last if I start nibbling at your ankles and work my way up?" "No. You might make it to my knee, but only if I think about starving children and venereal warts.

The Importance of Being Alice

As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reasons, even when there is none - which leads it co...

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.

It's Your Time: Activate Your Faith, Accomplish Your Dreams, and Increase in God's Favor

Change from the inside out involves a steadfast gaze upon our Lord that's life changing because it reflects a deep turning from a commitment to self-sufficiency. Without repentance, a look at Christ provides only the illusion of comfort.

Inside Out

While most activists could use a good dose of gentleness, I think most believers could use a good dose of holy anger.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

The lives of the thirty thousand children who die of starvation each day is like 6 september 11ths every single day, a silent tsunami that happens every week.

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

If you happen to be one of the people who has a split zygomaticus major muscle, where the lower part of it is tethered to the overlying skin, this will create a dimple in your cheek when you smile.

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us

Let us not rest until we are free to live in dignity in the land of our birth.

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

I trust you all slept well,” I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich’s glare with a tight-lipped grin. “Yes, we did,” Kaden answered quickly. “I’m sorry to hear that.

The Kiss of Deception

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold

Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge relief.

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation

When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.

Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder

...the issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

Each one of us is the architect of his own fate; and he is unfortunate indeed who will try to build himself without the inspiration of God, without realizing that he grows from within, not from without.

Secrets of a Happy Life

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life