Em Forster The Machine Stops Quotes

#1. To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Pema Chodron

#2. There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Max Baucus

#3. While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.

Ellen G. White

#4. What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under the
same roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?

Michel De Montaigne

#5. I like the way you can stretch things out and leave a huge amount of space that, on a record, would feel like silence. I enjoy the possibilities.

John Parish

#6. Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

Henry De Montherlant

#7. We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.

Stephen R. Lawhead