Rift Quotes - Page 2

• Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Adversity, Men

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• My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.

  Dylan Thomas

  Beautiful, Dream, Grief

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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• Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Focus, Routine

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.305, Harper Collins

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• Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Sky, White, Imagination

  "Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921". Book by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and George Leigh Mallory, 1922.

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• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  Flora Thompson

  Morning, Sunshine, Autumn

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• We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Mean, Men, Stories

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• The rift between culture and pop-culture has never been greater.

  Dov Davidoff

  Culture, Pops, Greater

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 05, 2012

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• Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

  David C. Cassidy

  Science, Anxiety, Political

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• We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.

  Werner Herzog

  Men, Discovery, Years

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

  Michael Steele

  Struggle, Party, Fighting

  "Countdown to Election Day; Miners Tell Their Tale; Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94; President and First Lady Campaigning". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2010.

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• It is important to understand that there are two separate battles taking place in Iraq: there is the political rift between the Sunnis, Shia and the Kurds and there is a foreign extremist group - ISIS - trying to take advantage of the political environment through violence. If the Iraqis can resolve their political differences, it will be far more difficult for ISIS to thrive. Moving forward, we should continue to evaluate additional steps to help combat ISIS as we see what the Iraqis are willing to do politically, but we must also firmly guard against mission creep.

  David Adam Smith

  Military, Moving, Isis

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• We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

  Robert Reich

  Country, Princess, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Real, Rain, Heart

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and books, or Records of thought and reading”, p.22

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• But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Mean, Needs, Care

  Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.190, Red Lemonade

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• Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

  Steve Inskeep

  People, Ancient, Modern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how it sees itself (Kantian autonomism) and how it actually exists (pathetic prole-culture).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Ego, Culture

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• We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not in our interests that the West should liberate the East, for in doing this and in liberating the enslaved nations, the West would inevitably deprive Jewry of the Eastern half of its world power.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Differences, People, Democracy

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