General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.
The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.
Now, our Sun will not collapse to a black hole. It's actually not massive enough.
I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.
There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
Travel at faster than the speed of light certainly can have dramatic implications that are difficult to understand, such as time travel.
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea.
I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.
