Lois Duncan quotes and words of wisdom

"If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity."
Found in the topic Eternity.

Interesting Quotes

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.Nick Diamos

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.Alfred Hitchcock - British movie director (1899 - 1980)