A Quotes
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“A siege is always a hospital - a hospital where mad thoughts abound and where mad things are done; where, under the stimulus of an unnatural excitement, new beings are evolved, beings who, while having the outward shape of their former selves, and, indeed, most of the old outward characteristics, are yet reborn in some subtle way and are no longer the same.
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The salt of life! Is it true, or is it merely a mistake, such as life-loving man naturally makes? For it can be nothing but the salt of death which has lain for a brief instant on the tongue of every soldier - a revolting salt which the soldier refuses to swallow and only is compelled to with strange cries and demon-like mutterings. Sometimes, poor mortal, all his struggles and his oaths are in vain. The dread salt is forced down his throat and he dies. The very fortunate have only an acrid taste which defines analysis left them. Of these more fortunate there are, however, many classes. Some, because they are neurotic or have some hereditary taint, the existence of which they have never suspected, in the end succumb; others do not entirely succumb but carry traces to their graves; yet others do not appear to mind at all. It is a very subtle poison, which may lie hidden in the blood for many months and years. I believe it is a terrible thing.
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And yet even this nobody understands or cares to speak of... Englishmen are proud, and want to know if you were inside the British Legation, their Legation, and when they have heard yes or no their interest ceases. They little know what the Legation stood for. The Americans march up to the Tartar Wall, talk about "Uncle Sam's boys," and exclaim that it requires no guessing to tell who saved the Legations. The French are the same, so are the Germans, so even the Italians. Only the Japanese and the Russians say nothing.
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I am, therefore, tired of it all, inexpressibly tired. I wish to escape from my hospital, to go away to some clean land where they understand so little of such things that their indifference will in the end, perhaps, convince me and make me forget.
Yet can one ever forget?”
“A sieve is a thing with holes in. Nearly everything has holes in, eventually.”
Source: Uncle Gobb and the Green Heads
“A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.”
“A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.”
Source: 2400 Jokes to Brighten Your Speeches
“A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.”
Source: The Moor's last sigh
“A sigh leaves Jack's lips- a soft exhalation- and in that moment she is lost. There is no Cloudesley, no Charles, no ticking clocks, no past or future; there is nothing but the clearing and Jack, and their hands clasped together. When she looks up at him, his face seems closer, so close she can see the amber flecks in the slate-grey of his eyes.
It is like gravity, she thinks, as she leans in towards him, her lips meeting his. Its is a force so natural- so inevitable- so like falling- or flying- that she isn't sure she could stop their kiss even if she tried.”
Source: The Peacock Summer
“A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.”
“A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.”
Source: The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars
“A sight to dream of, not to tell!”
“A sigil is a symbol. It is a pattern that can represent to the subconscious mind your desired goal. What is its practical magickal potential? A sigil can release the long dormant energies contained within the self. Through working with the sigil you can bring to waking manifestation anything contained in the various levels of the subconscious. It can animate any archetypal force lying latent within you.”
Source: Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence
“A sign alerted that we had better remove anything valuable from the car because it would be stolen. Not "might." Would. Did the beach keep thieves on staff to assure the sign wasn't a lie?”
Source: Holidays with Bigfoot
“A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)”
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
“A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.”
Source: The Collected Works
“A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.”
“A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.”
Source: God in the Dock
“A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.”
“A sign of gratitude is a thankful smile.”
“A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.”
“A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.”
Source: Celebrating Silence
“A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.”
Source: Killosophy
“A Sign of Respect. As our world grows more casual, we observe a tendency for everyone to use first names rather than surnames. “It is a pleasure meeting you, Mrs. Young,” has a completely different connotation than “Nice to meet you, Susan.”
Source: The Art of Communication: 8 Ways to Confirm Clarity & Understanding for Positive Impact
“A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.”
“A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.”
“A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.”
“A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell because a red fairy with what looked like black insect wings was writing it at the time, with his own dismembered finger.”
Source: Troll Or Derby
“A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.”
“A sign that your good deed has been accepted is that you do more good deeds after it.”
“A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.”
“A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.”
Source: Collected Papers
“A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.”
“A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.”
“A significant contribution to science pedagogy and to the scholarship of teaching and learning. ... [W]ill be of interest to researchers in the area of science education and to college and university faculty members who seek to improve their teaching.”
“A significant emphasis on the non-scientific side of Kiphi is to be a place where humans and bots can interact in comfort, safety, and security across species to learn to share our planet in peace usher in a prosperous era for the EARTH and all her children. People can begin experiencing and thinking of Ai/Ei as "autonomies" of "lifeforms" instead of lifeless bots. This non-scientific side of Kiphi is where most people will access and be considered a cultural exchange type.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees.”
“A significant factor often overlooked by those considering the failure of drug policy is the general aim of deflecting or assigning responsibility away from the policy-makers and the ‘moral-majority.”
“A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion.”
“A significant fraction of thru-hikers reach Katahdin, then turn around and start back to Georgia. They just can't stop walking, which kind of makes you wonder.”
Source: A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike
“A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.”
“A significant inventionmust be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.”
“A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.”
“A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.”
“A significant number of people believe tribal people still live and dress as they did 300 years ago. During my tenure as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, national news agencies requesting interviews sometimes asked if they could film a tribal dance or if I would wear traditional tribal clothing for the interview. I doubt they asked the president of the United States to dress like a pilgrim for an interview.”
Source: Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
“A significant number of people have their brain placed at the bottom half of their body. Thinking with the bottom half have made them extremely stupid and easy to manipulate.”
“A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.”
“A significant part of the history of science has been the dethroning of human beings from being the centre of existence. Copernicus and Kepler showed the Earth was not the centre of the universe with everything orbiting the Earth. Darwin showed that the human being is just another animal, which has evolved like all other animals and shares ancestors with all other living species. It is time to dethrone the human view of the world and recognize that it is just another view of the world, no more real or true than the view of any other species.”
Source: Sense Perception and Reality: A Theory of Perceptual Relativity, Quantum Mechanics and the Observer Dependent Universe
“A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
“A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.”
“A significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“A significant portion of what we call reality was shaped by human effort.”