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“The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.”
“The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.”
“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness.”
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."”
“The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.”
“The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.”
Source: Literary Occasions: Essays
“The biography of John Wesley is surely unique. Here is a man born in the first decade of his century, who sees it through into the last; a man so far in reaction from the tendencies of his age that he seems a living commentary on them, yet so much the child of his age that you cannot think of him as fitting in with any other. A High Churchman in his youth, he makes for himself in the unsympathetic surroundings of Oxford an enclave of primitive observance and of ascetic living; such is his personal influence that he seems destined, if that were possible, to shake Oxford out of its long dream. Dis aliter visum; he undergoes an experience of conversion before his lifetime has reached its mid-point. A sensational conversion; the finished product of the schools becomes the disciple of a foreign visitor to our shores, by no means his match in intellect. Thenceforward, he must fight by other methods, and for the most part with other companions, that battle against irreligion to which he has dedicated his youth. He has made his own soul, but the battle is not yet over; he finds himself in conflict with the men who had been his closest comrades in arms, and who still share his own beliefs but exaggerate their emphasis in a degree which he thinks dangerous. A man who once seemed likely to do great things for the Church of England, yet whose influence, on the whole, was to damage her position in the eyes of his contemporaries; a man, nevertheless, who lived to see something of the old bitterness against him die down, whose age was cheered by public recognition at once welcome, unsought, and unexpected.
So far, however, there is nothing unique about John Wesley. A careful reperusal of the foregoing paragraph will show that it all applies equally to the career of Cardinal Newman.
Wesley and Newman-you might think that some elfin fate had arranged this odd consent between the stars of the two men, just so as to throw into relief the vast difference there was between them. Newman, so sensitive, so warm in his attachments, so revealing in This content downloaded from his literary confidences, Wesley, so unruffled by opposition, so half-hearted in his familiarities, so circumspect in his admissions; Newman, the recluse, Wesley, a lifelong vagabond in the service of his gospel; Newman, painstaking in his judgements, fastidious in his style, Wesley, leaping to infallible conclusions and throwing them at you with the first words that came to hand; Newman, such a child of the Renaissance, Wesley, so fundamentally a Puritan. And, deeper down, Newman the apostle of religious authority, Wesley, a cheerful experimentalist who in all the hesitations of a lifetime never asked himself by what right he ruled, or on what basis of intellectual certainty he believed.”
Source: Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion
“The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.”
“The biological clock and the career clock are in total conflict with each other.”
“The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.”
“The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.”
“The biological science went against high altitude professional astronomy over a century ago.”
“The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless.”
Source: The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
“The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence.”
“The biologically toxic electromagnetic cover up is one of the most destructive actions that modern governments are engaging in.”
“The biologically toxic field of high altitude astronomy was the only employer that sent me on a ‘How to deal with unacceptable employee behavior’ management course.”
“The biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) are a clone of the biologically toxic nuclear radiation industry that Karen Silkwood was dealing with.”
“The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.”
“The biologist was coming down the hillside. In all her glory and monstrosity.”
Source: Acceptance
“The biologists are a ruthless bunch, and quite devoid of any particular regard for doctors. In theory they don’t even want a surgeon to patch up a man who has been hit on the head with a brick, the argument being that it is better for the human race to be able to dodge bricks. Which is a correct viewpoint, I suppose, unless it happens to be your head and your brick.”
Source: Strong Medicine
“The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.”
“The biology of emotional freedom depends on getting your endorphins flowing and turning off your stress hormones. How you achieve this? Laughter, exercise, meditation and doing anything that makes you loved.”
Source: Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
“The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.”
“The Biology of Tribalism concerns pushes and pulls between populations, which primarily occur due to tradeoffs between inbreeding and outbreeding. Ethnocentrism and other tribalistic personality facets have evolved to influence mate choice and encourage “optimal outbreeding.” The book will explore these and other tribalistic political phenomena that impact the evolution of populations, including gender inequality, warfare, and genocide.
The Biology of Family Conflict (Parent-Offspring Conflict) is the field of evolutionary theory that explains why the interests of the most closely related individuals do not always align, and thus why different family disciplinary strategies exist. The two opposed disciplinary models are based on egalitarian and hierarchical moralities. These conflicts are linked to the variation in people's tolerance of inequality.
The Biology of Altruism and Self-Interest is the area of evolutionary theory that describes how and why people cooperate with and betray one another; this field sheds light on why some people perceive human nature so differently than others.”
Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
“The biophysics of ethics is metaethics.”
“The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.”
“The biosphere explodes in diversity, creating more and more cracks in the floor of Darwin’s nature until the cracks, ever expanding, become the very floor of nature, and nature herself.”
Source: A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
“The bipartisan approach filtered up through my typewriter. I used to say, "Mad takes on both sides." We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. Mad was wide open. Bill loved it, and he was a capitalist Republican. I loved it, and I was a liberal Democrat. That went for the writers, too; they all had their own political leanings, and everybody had a voice. But the voices were mostly critical. It was social commentary, after all.”
“The birch is used only out of bad temper and weakness, for the birch is a servile punishment which degrades the soul even when it corrects, if indeed it corrects, for its usual effect is to harden.”
“The birch remains.
Never
harm it.”
Source: In Lithuanian Wood
“The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.”
“The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.”
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.”
Source: Gulistan or Rose Garden
“The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.”
“The bird asked the tree,
“How do you heal from
a broken heart?”
The tree replied,
“You don’t heal.
Like my leaves,
They come and go.
You wait for the winds to rise,
So they can carry away
All that weighted you down,
Making space
For new growth.”
Source: From Scars to Stars: Pieces of a Healing Heart
“The bird carried me inside his song. It was so beautiful that I couldn’t help myself. I reached out and tried to embrace it, the bird, and when I did, I put my arms around you.”
Source: Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player :
“The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is the simplest principle of success. You dream, you dare and and you fly.”
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.”
“The bird flashes back and forth
between the black leaves of the laurel trees
and the greenness of the olive grove.”
“The bird Gamayun was related to Alkonost and Sirin in some vague fashion-even the most casual observer would've noticed that all three of them were not entirely birds; they had the faces and breasts of women, severe but beautiful. And when their lips opened, they sand in women's voices, deep and rich and bittersweet.”
“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.”
“The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.”
“The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?”
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”
“The bird loves her nest.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“THE BIRD, MFONISO
Not with the eyes of an eagle, for it sees and preys
But the eyes of a pelican has your nature be built
The selfless blood to revive those dying even if it hurts
Your elegance with the tweeting melodies
Your lips with the news of hope
Let the flowers bow as you make flaps to land
Your eyes with the flashing flowers
Roses beneath your print blossom
For nature got envy when your cheeks part
Your tears waters every soul from a distance
Your feelings are theirs in reflection
And Empathy bows to your glow
Daniel amongst the lions
Oh Mfoniso, bird speaks great tidings
Poem by Victor Vote for Mfoniso Daniel
©️2021 - VVF”
Source: Keeping Spirituality
“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.”
Source: Summer and Bird
“The Bird of Hermes is my name, Eating my Wings to make me tame.”