3zekiel Quotes

“Don’t go looking for miracles. You are the miracle. Every day, your body creates roughly three hundred billion new blood cells. That’s more than all the stars in the galaxy. Imagine that.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Think about something beautiful. Like a sunset. We look at a planet like Saturn and see beauty. For hundreds of millions of years those magnificent rings have been there, stretching out around a gas giant that’s seven hundred and fifty times larger than Earth, but it’s only now they’re beautiful, only now when we look at them through a telescope or through the eyes of a robotic probe. Don’t you see, without us, they’re meaningless. We make them beautiful.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Is it wrong to doubt? To have questions? Pretzel’s got his test tubes and telescopes. Garcia has his guns and muscles. Dad’s got the Scriptures. Jana and I are still trying to find our way in this crazy world and now it looks like our lives will be over before they’ve begun. Russians? Aliens? Does it really matter?”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“There’s never any concern given to the millions of other species on this planet and I wonder what the aliens will think about gorillas like Tiny and Lady.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“People get importance all wrong. Celebrities. Movie stars. Singers. Princes and prime ministers. They’re important, right? Wrong. They’re entertainers, politicians, that’s all. They’re individuals—just like you and me. Nothing more. Nothing less.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Getting angry is easy, but it makes it hard to see clearly. I think the dumbest decisions are made out of pride when people are angry, but perhaps that’s just me reflecting on my own hot head.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“but there’s something almost hypnotic about listening to the elderly Indian scientist with his soft, distinct accent. His words are measured. Like the surface of the ocean, there’s depth behind each sentence. All we see are the ripples, the waves rolling toward the beach, but there’s so much more beneath each comment.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Pуки! Pуки! Оставайтесь на месте!”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Там! Я вижу их там.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Colors don’t exist,” Pretzel says, gesturing with his hand and waving as though he wants to be rid of this point as quickly as possible. “They’re artificial, just constructs of our minds. Reality is shades of grey. Colors are evolution’s way of helping us distinguish things of importance, but they’re not real. Different animals see different colors.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“We look for meaning in life, but we’re asking the wrong questions. There’s nothing out there that will give meaning to our lives. On the contrary, it’s our lives that give meaning to the universe.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“I don’t know what I feel. Anger? Disappointment? Defeat? Hurt? Resignation? I’ve got to bury those emotions. I’ve got to push on.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“I climb up on the worn leather seat and sit on the spongy padding, feeling the old springs sag.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Strange, but helping Pretzel and calming Jana is keeping me grounded. Just when I felt as though I was falling apart, I find myself pushing to help, getting outside myself.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Bats roost in the caves north of the village. They’re known to carry diseases like Ebola and viruses like Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“I can’t resist. “Makes you feel alive, doesn’t it?” And he bursts out laughing.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“In the US, childhood deaths are rare. Death happens, but to older people, or sick people, or someone caught in an accident, and it’s rarely seen by anyone other than doctors and nurses. Here, death is an unwelcome guest at each home. People die all the time, especially kids.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“If more people skipped, the world would be a better place, I’m sure of it. It’s just not possible to skip and be mean or angry or anything but full of joy,”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“Being wrong is a stepping stone to getting things right, but you’ve got to be willing to leave behind past notions.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“get it,” Pretzel says. “You want to believe. You see something that seems to fit within your framework of knowledge and it’s easy to read that into the Bible. We all see what we want to see.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“For a start, the location chosen by the alien vessel is the closest equatorial point to the African pole of inaccessibility.” “You’re going to have to explain that one.” “Every continent has a point of inaccessibility, marking its most remote location, the furthest point from any coastline.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel

“So what is this death we fear? It’s our natural state. We may not like it, but it’s true. “Don’t feel sorry for the dead. Pity those that think they’ll never die, because they’re the real fools. You see, they live for everything other than life itself. But you. You know the secret. You understand the meaning you bring to this world.”
― Peter Cawdron, 3zekiel