Passages Quotes - Page 17

• There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

  Abby Sunderland

  Ocean, Marine, Numbers

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What interests us in operations of striation and smoothing are precisely the passages or combinations: how the forces at work within space continually striate it, and how in the course of its striation it develops other forces and emits new smooth spaces.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Space, Smooth, Force

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.551, A&C Black

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• Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Water, World

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

  Napoleon Hill

  Secret, Matter, Way

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• The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.

  Criss Angel

  Other Cultures, People, Firsts

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.

  Anthony Albanese

  Thinking, Today, Tomorrow

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now.

  Clive Barker

  Doorways, Rooms, Sunlight

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• Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Memories, Garden

  Four Quartets "Burnt Norton" pt. 1 (1936)

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• I'd go nuts. Because people look at the same passage and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Two, Nuts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• My wife is my first reader, my first line of defence I suppose. So she says, "Oh well, oh yes, it's all true." At the same time, I could have written much more about us, but I didn't want to go any further. I did cut things out. There are certain things that I wrote about her that are so gushing with praise and admiration that when I looked at those passages I realised they would be ridiculous to anybody else.

  Paul Auster

  Cutting, Wife, Lines

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Justice, Instinct

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  Henry Miller

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Henry Miller (2007). “Black Spring”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• I believe that the Bible is to be understood and received in the plain and obvious meaning of its passages; for I cannot persuade myself that a book intended for the instruction and conversion of the whole world should cover its true meaning in any such mystery and doubt that none but critics and philosophers can discover it.

  Daniel Webster

  Bible, Book, Believe

  Daniel Webster, Dartmouth College (1974). “The papers of Daniel Webster: Correspondence”

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• I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

  John Newton

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.466

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• Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Lapses, Pipe Organs

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Mind, Firsts, Clarity

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.211, Lulu.com

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• Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Memories, Might, Privilege

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• Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Art, Life Is Short, White

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.

  Nora Waln

  Time, Flower, Fall

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• Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

  Laurie R. King

  Leaving, Details, Daily Life

  Laurie R. King (2016). “The Mary Russell Series 9-Book Bundle: O Jerusalem, Justice Hall, The Game, Locked Rooms, The Language of Bees, The God of the Hive, Pirate King, Garment of Shadows, Dreaming Spies”, p.785, Bantam

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• Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

  Sara Nelson

  Book, Reading, Decision

  Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.38, Penguin

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• When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

  Jon Krakauer

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011

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• And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Memories, Past, Light

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.113, Penguin

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• I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

  Jill Ker Conway

  Moon, Sky, Earth

  Jill Ker Conway (2011). “The Road from Coorain”, p.235, Vintage

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