Branches Quotes - Page 11

• And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Long, Mind, Substance

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.28, Anchor

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Growing Up, Spring

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Passion, Light

  "The Monkey Grammarian". Book by Octavio Paz, Ch. 2, 1974.

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• Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

  John Fletcher

  Tree, Dew, Corruption

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• The pornography of tough-mindedness, covert action, and preparedness for "peace through strength" has had a predictably hypnotic effect on the legislative branch, turning it from legal watchdog to lapdog.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Action, Tough, Preparedness

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.46, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

  Michael Faraday

  Self, Order, Owl

  Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

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• Is it not singular how some men continue to obtain the reputation of popular authorship without adding a word to the literature of their country worthy of note?? To puff and to get one's self puffed have become different branches of a new profession.

  Anthony Trollope

  Country, Men, Self

  'The Way We Live Now' (1875) ch. 1

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• We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes.

  Thomas Reid

  Philosophy, Party, Issues

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• Request an apology when you believe you deserve one, but don't get in a tug of war about it. Instead, be a role model and tender a genuine apology yourself when an apology is due. Your willingness to apologize can be contagious and models maturity for your partner. Also, your non-apologizing partner may use a nonverbal way to reconnect after a fight, defuse the tension, or show you he's in a new place and wants to repair a disconnection. Accept the olive branch however it's offered.

  Harriet Lerner

  War, Believe, Apology

  "Waiting For An Apology? Don’t Hold Your Breath" by Harriet Lerner, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• When the fields of human knowledge are so various and so vast as is the case in our day, the utmost that can be done by single minds not of encyclopedic range, is to master one subject or branch of subject as thoroughly as possible, and to rest content with knowing that others are working in regions where neither time nor strength will permit us to enter.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Knowing, Mind, Done

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• Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Industry, Productions

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.190

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• The President's pre-1776 mentality is hurting America and fracturing the foundation on which our country has stood for 230 years. The President can't just bypass two branches of government, and obey only those laws he wants to obey.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Hurt, Government

  "Pre-1776 Mentality". www.dailykos.com. February 02, 2006.

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• A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling.

  Robert Jordan

  Saplings, Blades, Wot

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.352, Macmillan

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• The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

  Thomas Malthus

  Views, Political, May

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• It has been said, and perhaps with truth, that the conclusions of Political Economy partake more of the certainty of the stricter sciences than those of most of the other branches of human knowledge.

  Thomas Malthus

  Political, Economy, Said

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.240, Penguin UK

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• Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

  L. Neil Smith

  Laughter, Wings, Roots

  "Revenge of the Cookie Monster". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. January 31, 2010.

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• In pitch dark
  I go walking in your landscape
  Broken branches
  Trip me as I speak
  Just 'cause you feel it
  Doesn't mean it's there...
  We are accidents waiting
  Waiting to happen.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Dark, Broken

  "Song: 'There There'". 2003.

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• The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.

  Andrew Bacevich

  Party, Office, President

  "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism". Book by Andrew Bacevich, 2008.

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• The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder.

  Ogden Nash

  Sky, Lovely, Ink

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City, N. Y : Garden City publishing Company, Incorporated

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• As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.

  J. Gordon Melton

  Reality, Psychics, America

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• Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Government, Police, Maintenance

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.257

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• The real joy is in discovering that the twigs and branches of my practice are all firmly rooted in a single tree, even as time goes by and I become increasingly aware of the fleetingness of all things.

  James Nares

  Real, Practice, Tree

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• Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous; gray light streaking each bare branch, each single twig, along one side, making another tree, of glassy veins.

  John Banville

  Morning, Light, Tree

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• Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Astrology, Used, Ill

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1991). “The Astrology of the Four Horsemen: How You Can Heal Yourself and Planet Earth”, p.35, Summit University Press

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• More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.

  Patrice Pavis

  Wall, Communication, Flirting

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