Caught Quotes - Page 16

• When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

  Isak Dinesen

  Rhythm

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.

  Nick Morgan

  Letting Go, Thinking, Giving

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• I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Mistake, Teaching, Fall

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• With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

  Calvin Miller

  Song, Singers, No Fear

  Calvin Miller (2009). “The Singer: A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict”, p.84, InterVarsity Press

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• Most of us have participated in the trust exercise in which one person falls back and is caught by a peer. Even if the catch is made a hundred times in a row, the trust is broken forever if the friend lets you fall the next time as a joke. Even if he swears he is sorry and will never let you fall again, you can never fall back without a seed of doubt.

  Rafe Esquith

  Sorry, Fall, Exercise

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• My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ears, Earth, Signals

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.716, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be caught up in your outer world. Pay greater attention to your inner world

  Alan Rufus

  Mind, Attention, World

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• Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon.

  Graham Swift

  Teacher, Children, School

  Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster

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• Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

  Rod Kanehl

  Baseball, Games, Lines

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• Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Daughter, Mouths

  "Louis C.K.: Chewed Up". Documentary, Comedy, 2008.

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• I'm feeling alright, I am pretty happy with it. I was trying to catch her, around 37k my calf started to cramp on me a little so I had to make sure to run smart so I didn't completely cramp up. When the Aussie caught me I figured my medal contention might be up but I ended up catching 4th.

  Lanni Marchant

  Running, Smart, Feelings

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• Bathsheba! to whom none ever said scat- No worthier cat Ever sat on a mat, Or caught a rat. Requiescat!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cat, Rats, Said

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• We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But God is the most fragile, a bare smear of pollen, that scatter of yellow dust from the tree that tumbled over in the storm of my grief and planted itself again. God is the death agony of the frog that cannot find water in the time of the drought we created. God is the scream of the rabbit caught in the fires we set. God is the One whose eyes never close and who hears everything.

  Deena Metzger

  Grief, Eye, Agony

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• After three elections, voters finally caught on that Obama's faults were not in the stars, but in himself. They apparently tired of the usual distractions from a dismal presidential record.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Stars, Tired, Presidential

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• He's sort of caught everybody on the hot, really, and good luck to him. He tried it last week as an experiment and it certainly worked.

  Colin Montgomerie

  Good Luck, Hot, Lasts

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• I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope it will serve to remind us that history's deepest tragedies concern not the great protagonists who set events in motion but the countless ordinary people who are caught up in those events and torn apart by their remorseless fury. I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, Memories, Collective Memory

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• It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.

  J. W. N. Sullivan

  Life, Beautiful, Lying

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• Learn this great secret of life: What people call interruption or disturbance to their routine is just as much a part of living as the routine. To split life into two parts, one called routine and the other called interruption, is to be caught between them.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Two, People

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• I was in a very deep state of shock after that. I had raised my horse since he was six months old and he was more like a child to me, so I took it very hard. They never caught who did it and the stable did a great job of covering facts up so it couldn't be proved that it was the direct result of the article, but the coincidence was striking.

  Jeff Miller

  Horse, Jobs, Children

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• Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Animal, Affection, Pantomime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.157

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• Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring it closer to ourselves without altering it, "like a bird caught with a limestick." But the reality is, every truth we manage to know is altered, deformed by our very "encheiresis naturae," by the act of our taking-in-hand of nature (to borrow the alchemists' phrase from Goethe's Faust).

  Kenny Smith

  Truth, Nice, Reality

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• I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Heart, New Experiences

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Not to wax nostalgic about the 1970s, but back then people got upset when they saw injustice. They got tired of seeing our air, land and water polluted. They were shocked when the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was polluted so badly it caught fire. And on one great day 20 million Americans marched all across this land. Politicians had no choice but to take notice.

  John F. Kerry

  Tired, Fire, Air

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• Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Punishment, Justice, Guilt

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rivers, Environmental, Moments

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