Immortal Quotes - Page 37

• Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

  Michael Scott

  Men, Thinking, Perspective

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• I am, in fact, immortal when annoyed.

  Mira Grant

  Annoyed, Facts

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• Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

  Warren G. Bennis

  People, Soul, Dreamer

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal. . . . Gaia's children might never die out-provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life-but one cannot remain in the womb forever.

  Frank J. Tipler

  Mother, Children, Moving

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• I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Winning, Soul, Commodity

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• If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

  John Tillotson

  Soul, Suffering, States

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• It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

  Julius Caesar

  Punishment, Long, May

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• Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.

  Robert Hughes

  Drawing, Desire, Skins

  "A bastion against cultural obscenity" by Robert Hughes, www.theguardian.com. June 03, 2004.

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