Quotes About Connection

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

I do tend to like people in practice, even though I've built an airtight

I wanted to understand her. I wanted her, more dubiously, to understand me .

What do you actually care about?" "People," I said. "All right, E.M. Forster.

She'd been surprised by the pang that the idea of the place gave her. She didn't think of herself as a romantic about location, even though she was secretly romantic about everything.

But won't you miss me?" . . . "I already do," he said.

As lines, so love's oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet : But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.

For Juliana comes, and she, what I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me.

If these the Times, then this must be the Man. [Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.

Andrew Mayne

You don't role-play if you hate people. You play these games if you don't know how to interact with others and are looking for a way to connect. The rules and routines of RPGs make it easy for even the most socially awkward person to spend a few hours in the company of other people without worrying about what to say.

There's a weird historical link between cults and science fiction. Not only do science-fiction writers create cults, sometimes cult leaders become obsessed with science fiction.

Damian..." "Yes?" "Where are you?" "Wherever you want me to be." "I'll leave the door unlocked.

But when I set it back down she's still staring up—almost as if she's looking to God for

And even though it kills me when you're not looking at me, or it feels that way, I love the fact that you're still trying to put things together—to make them better. And I'd never sacrifice that, even if it meant your eyes were always on me.

People who share last names tend to be related and get together more often for meals and are less guarded about eating off one another's plates and exchanging germs. This creates pockets of infection over weekends that soon extend to schools and work. The presence of convention centers added to the calculation.

His face grows serious. "I'm one person with you in this world. Without you . . . I'd be another.

The trouble is we expect the emote part of emotion. Humans are social primates, and our experiences have to be externalized to be acknowledged by others.

My life depends on a bunch of hipsters retweeting a plea from a man probably sitting on a Yoga ball right now.

Dear Lazarus! I agree with you entirely that it is best for me to go with you, for only in your company do I enjoy myself most completely…. I kiss you warmly and am, as always, your ever-loving Babette Morgenthau

Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by. There was never any 'Is it on or is it off?' It wasn't as complicated because they got on so well. That was the nice thing about it, a straightforward love story.

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.