Shells Quotes - Page 23

• Once (says an Author; where I need not say)
  Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way;
  Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong;
  While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along
  Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws.
  Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause,
  Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right
  Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
  The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well,
  "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell.
  We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you:
  'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."

  Pope Alexander VI

  Winning, Sight, Hands

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• I have seen
  A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
  Of inland ground, applying to his ear
  The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell;
  To which, in silence hushed, his very soul
  listened intensely; for from within were heard
  Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed
  Mysterious union with its native sea.
  Even such a shell the universe itself
  Is to the ear of faith; and there are times,
  I doubt not, when to you it doth impart
  Authentic tidings of invisible things,
  Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power,
  And central peace, subsisting at the heart
  Of endless Agitation.

  William Wordsworth

  Children, Heart, Sea

  "The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Excursion".

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• Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.

  William Cowper

  Moving, Oysters, Water

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.617

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• When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

  Louis L'Amour

  Regret, Father, Men

  Louis L'Amour (2005). “Last of the Breed”, p.284, Bantam

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• He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
  [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

  Plautus

  Cracks, Kernel

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• We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge, with this or that. And that shell makes a lot of noise, and that noise we call living, and with that we are satisfied.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Over You, Sorrow

  "The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949, Choiceless awareness".

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• Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exit”; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient milieu to which he was adapted for hundreds of thousands of years . In our cities there is no more day or night or heat or cold. But there is overpopulation, thralldom to press and television, total absence of purpose. All men are constrained by means external to them to ends equally external. The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, Night, Men

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• In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.

  Chris Espinosa

  Use, Ease, Cigarette

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• You don't often hear people say, 'Oh, since he's been taking them drugs, he's such a nice person! He's really come out of his shell, he's really nice, he's blossomed'.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Nice, People, Drug

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• I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

  Rebecca Wells

  Party, Oysters, Half

  Rebecca Wells (1999). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Book, Adventure

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.54, Infobase Publishing

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• There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

  Anton Chekhov

  Numbers, People, Trying

  "The Man in a Case". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

  Jandy Nelson

  Teaching, Feel Better, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.97, Penguin

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• Without ELF, I'm just an empty shell. I'll always love E.L.F., even if E.L.F. already forgot about SJ.

  Leeteuk

  Empty, Empty Shell, Ifs

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• My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

  Eva Zeisel

  Body

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• So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.

  Lea Thompson

  Thinking, Play, Careers

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• She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

  Kristin Hannah

  Numbness, Littles, Scared

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• It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Denise Levertov (1997). “The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

  Frank Ocean

  Fuzzy, Projects, Compassionate

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

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• Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teaching, People

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

  Christine Lavin

  Feelings, New Yorkers, Shocked

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• Why does soldiers leave the protection of his trench hole in the ground and go forward in the face of shot and shell? It is because of the leader who is in front of him and his comrades who are around him. Comradeship makes a man feel warm and courageous when all his instincts tend to make him cold and afraid.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Military, Men, Leader

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• I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Mistake, Age

  Letter to E. M. Savrova-Yust, February 28, 1895.

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• It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it.

  Tarek Saab

  Sin, Guilty, Vacuous

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• What does the good ship bear so well? The cocoa-nut with its stony shell, And the milky sap of its inner cell.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Cells, Nuts, Doe

  John Greenleaf WHITTIER (1860). “Home Ballads and Poems”, p.144

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