Mazes Quotes - Page 8

• She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

  James Dashner

  Wall, Effort, Emotion

  James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.1005, Delacorte Press

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• The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

  Vannevar Bush

  Mean, Squares, Important

  "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, www.theatlantic.com. July 1945.

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• And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Giddy, Waltz

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• I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.

  John Dryden

  Men, Thinking, Wish

  'The Rival Ladies' (1664) act 3, sc. 1

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• ...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

  Milan Kundera

  Tragedy, Shells, Way

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• Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Selfish, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.

  Tana French

  Worry, Anxiety, Littles

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• Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

  Mickey Cohen

  New York, Rats, Breathe

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