“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.” WayHumansLeftGrowthKnownCapableStructureVulnerableVulnerabilityPassagesExposedShedProtectiveStretching Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.” IfsYearsWholeLeftWaterSunFireSpringRainPoundsHoneyExposedShelvesRain WaterSpring WaterRainwater Author:Columella
“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.” Has BeensUsedLeftTreeStreetsSweetDustDawnTouchedExposedLeafs Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.” MenHas BeensFactsCertainFallNextLeftHoursSinWonderVirtueInfluenceHonorMen And WomenShameTemptationHeightShockExposed Author:J. G. Holland
“If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.” IfsMenDreamWould BeLeftMankindNormalDignityExposedGravity Author:Vera Caspary
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.” TwoLeftWaterSecretBehindsShapesElementsStonesCrossesPrimariesDesertAbundanceExposedCanvasLeft BehindRarityVegetationFerocity Author:Craig Childs