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“So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.”

Years Long Has Beens War Life Is Quality Events Months Long Time Remains Prison Threat Bombs Traitor Announcements

Book:The Four-Gated City

Source: The Four-Gated City

“It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.”

Mind States Happiness Enjoy Quality Events Produce State Of Mind Duration Recurrence

Author:Andre Maurois

“It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.”

May Quality Events Details Occasions Concrete Incidents Tangible Intangible Intangible Quality

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.”

Humans Quality Events Sweet Amount Needed Perfection Charity Prosperity Sunshine Moderates Juice Courtesy Peaches Human Qualities Ripening Apricots

Book:Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

Source: Miss Oona McQuarrie: A sequel to Alfred Hagart's household

“The universal Law of Attraction states that we draw to us those people, events, and circumstances that match our inner state of being. In other words, we attract experiences that are consistent with our beliefs. If we believe that there is plenty of love in the world and we are worthy of giving and receiving that love, we will attract a different quality of relationships than someone who believes in scarcity or feels unworthy of happiness.”

Source: The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction

“Some objects and events may be photographed, others, if one is to render their true quality, should be painted or set to music, since their essence is more faithfully reproduced through imagination than by the journalistic report.”

Ifs Should May Imagination Quality Events Objects Photography Essence Reports Journalistic

Book:New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

Source: New York 22: that district of the City which lies between Fiftieth and Sixtieth Streets, Fifth Avenue, and the East River

“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.”

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't want to be really famous. I don't want people to stop me in the street. I want to just enjoy the work, work with lovely people, work on good quality sport and get to experience some more of these amazing moments.”

People Want Long Moments Sports Enjoy Quality Wonderful Streets Events Lovely Good Quality Sporting Events

Author:Jill Douglas

“Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.”

People Men Needs Feelings Action Quality Support Events Intelligent Intellect

Book:On War

Source: On War

“Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.”

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“It [9/11 event] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion.”

Mind Kind Political Interest Quality Events Organization Moved Dialogue Cosmic Persuasion Metaphysical Demonic

Author:Edward Said

“...whatever other qualities Jews may posses, likable or the reverse, no one who knows them well can deny that they are personally interesting. By that I mean, specially alive, alert, quick at comprehending people or events and at making pungent or witty comments on them... One might at times find the rather hothouse family atmosphere, with it intensities and frictions, somewhat trying, but one could be sure of never being bored.”

Source: Free Associations: Memories of a Psychoanalyst