You know, if this is Venus, or some other strange planet, we're liable to run into some high-domed characters with green blood in ...their veins who'll blast at us with their atomic death rayguns, and there we'll be with these--these poor old-fashioned shootin' irons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the surface of some other world. Givin...g light to those who may need it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the atom's fizz and pop we heard possibility uncorked. Taffeta wraps whispered on davenports.... A new planet bloomed above us; in its light the stumps of cut pine gleamed like dinner plates. The world was beginning all over again, fresh and hot; we could have anything we wanted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But what these had been, our peoples, our selves--were with us then, were us, had become us--could not be anything but us, their r...epresentatives--and we, together, the Representative, at last found the pole that was the extremity of our old planet, the dark cold pole that had been built, once, to guide in the space-fleets of Canopus, when they visited us. There we left that planet, and came to where we are now. We, the Representative, many and one, came here, where Canopus tends and guards and instructs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was not important that they survive. What mattered was that they should bear... Some lineament or character, Some affluence, if only half-perceived, In the poverty of their words, Of the planet of which they were part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and s...tings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. "They struck me," you will say, "but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this observance?' you shall say, 'It is the passover sacrifice to the LORD, f...or he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, b...ut not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine-forest. The English mind disliked the French mind... because it was antagonistic, unreasonable, perhaps hostile, but recognized it as at least a thought. The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp and direct. The English themselves hardly conceived that their mind was either economical, sharp or direct; but the defect that most struck an American was its enormous waste in eccentricity. Americans needed and used their whole energy, and applied it with close economy; but English society was eccentric by law and for sake of the eccentricity itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »