Democratization is not democracy;
Democratization is not democracy; it is a slogan for the temporary liberalization handed down from an autocrat. Glasnost is not free speech; only free speech, constitutionally guaranteed, is free speech. Gail Sheehy
Temporary
Growth demands a temporary
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. The real fear should be … Read more
Growth demands a temporary
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy
If we don’t change,
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Gail Sheehy
How was I to
How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before! Gail Carriger
The only education in
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that graduallu receded. What that definition left out was … Read more
Bones heal, pain is
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars Evel Knievel
At every turn, when
At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, ‘Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,’ we invariably choose the money. Ethan Hawke
Our citizenship is in
Our citizenship is in eternity; history is our temporary residence. Erwin McManus
Definitions are temporary verbalizations
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. Ernst Mayr