“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” LongRealityEarthLastsUniverseAttentionWonderFocusMysteryTasteDestructionEndureContemplatingReservesWearySilent SpringBeauty Of The Earth Author:Rachel Carson
“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.” MenDoeWarStatesLastsVisionModernTerribleCapitalismDestructionRelationEndureAvailableGuaranteesSacramentsModern ManInterpersonal Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“I am not permitted to let my love be so merciful as to tolerate and endure false doctrine. When faith and doctrine are concerned and endangered, neither love nor patience are in order....when these are concerned, neither toleration nor mercy are in order, but only anger, dispute, and destruction - to be sure, only with the Word of God as our weapon.” OrderLove IsWeaponsConcernedDestructionMercyEndureDoctrineWord Of GodTolerateDisputesMercifulToleration Author:Martin Luther
“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.” StillsStoriesMightChristianLiteratureChurchAcceptingRichEventsDestructionHistoricalIslamEndureLibraryJewScaryWorthyMythDespiteDramaticCommentTestimonyMedievalObjectionsUnnoticedChristian ChurchAlexandriaByzantine Author:Bernard Lewis
“Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)” KnowsHeartBrainTeachCasesTerribleFlowDestructionPressureEndureCracksLungsSkullsLavaPompeii Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944 Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.” PeopleSoulHandsWalksPrideDestructionEndureHumbleImmortalityProvidenceHand In Hand Author:Calvin Coolidge
“To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.” ShouldHumansSelfTodayRememberSufferingPassionWishCreativeProveDestructionMiseryProfoundEndurePityTortureSicknessContemptHave FaithHumiliationUnfamiliarMistrustForsakenCreative Passion Author:Richard Linklater
“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.” IfsKnowsLifeEnoughMomentsUseWisdomChoicesUniverseWonderKnowledgeWiseIgnoranceMinesEternalGainsDestructionRemainsEndureIgnorantDullUnseenEternal LifeComprehensionAchillesSwirls Author:Isaac Asimov
“That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.” WorldLongHas BeensEarthValuesHateNationsDifferencesSecurityDependsOffersIdealsDestructionSafetyEndureIslamicWillingnessTimeless Author:Barack Obama
“Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.” MenHumansTwoMomentsFormLife IsHumanityOrderGrowsWaterLove IsPracticeGraceFourCenturyHe ManWorshipStonesDestructionEndureCaughtTortureFedsSparksBeing HumanCurvesBrutalityWheatMindlessStagnationArches Author:Ayn Rand
“The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.” GivingLongWarReasonPurposeDestructionEndureAttractionCarnage Book:War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning Source: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning