Operations Quotes - Page 36

• The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Wish, Armor

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

  Gaston Leroux

  Beautiful, People, Noses

  "The Phantom of the Opera & The Mystery of the Yellow Room".

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• In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Children, Taken

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.152, Applewood Books

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• Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

  H. G. Wells

  Cat, Swings, Essentials

  H. G. Wells (2012). “Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul”, p.219, The Floating Press

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• Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning; there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.

  Sarah Dessen

  Giving, Firsts, Connections

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Lock and Key”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Mistake, Rocks

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.113, Penguin

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• Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Cutting, Sheep

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• The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.

  Brion Gysin

  Real, Writing, Firsts

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• Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is better than hanging out in a bunch of old ruins." Shay's eyes flashed. "Or maybe when they do the operation-when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everyone else-maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Party, Kids, Eye

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• I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.

  Henri Matisse

  Thinking, Joy, Suffering

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• There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wings

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• Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

  Aberjhani

  Funny Valentines Day, Mistake, People

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1904). “The Logic of Hegel”

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• You know what I find most shocking about the Vel'd'Hiv?" Guillaume said. "Its code name." I knew the answer to that, thanks to my extensive reading. Operation Spring Breeze, " I murmured.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Spring, Reading, Names

  Tatiana de Rosnay (2007). “Sarah's Key”, p.49, Macmillan

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• No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.

  Christopher Moore

  Lying, Clueless, Fire

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• ...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

  Michael Pollan

  Forget, Underrated

  Michael Pollan (2001). “The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World”, p.178, Random House

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• A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with me!” 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Come ON, Steven! I’m BORED!” 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me—ever!” 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Brother, Moving, Home

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

  Seamus Heaney

  Desolation, Difficult, Left Behind

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.422, Macmillan

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• You spend Christmas at somebody's house, you worry about their operations, you give them hugs and kisses and flowers, you see them in their dressing gown...and then bang, that's it. Gone forever. And sooner or later there will be another mum, another Christmas, more varicose veins. They're all the same. Only the addresses, and the colors of the dressing gown, change.

  Nick Hornby

  Flower, Kissing, Color

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.62, Penguin

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• The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)

  Flannery O'Connor

  August, Church, Misunderstanding

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• I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.

  J. K. Rowling

  Firsts, Neville Longbottom, Remus Lupin

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• Boyfriend huh? I didn't realize we had taken things to that level." "Oh, I'm sorry--this is my first undercover operation," Jordan said. "I'm a little unclear about the rules. Are we seeing other people in this fake relationship?

  Julie James

  Sorry, Taken, People

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.50, Penguin

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• Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

  Emily Bronte

  Cat, Mind, Watches

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.54

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• The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Art, Mean, Sleep

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• Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ties, Looks, Bread

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.141, Editora Dracaena

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