“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.” MenSaidMomentsSchoolForceSimpleWalksViolenceBuildingHe ManWallTruth IsOfficeGunBallsThreatExtremesCirclesTeenagerShootingReasonablePairsThroatKnivesGun ControlKickingCurlsSidewalkSimple TruthsOffice Buildings Author:Rory Miller
“I don't like not saying anything. I don't like having a wall between me and the audience. I want to break down that wall and communicate with the people in the room, 'cause we're there together and we're having a nice moment.” PeopleWantMomentsTogetherCausesRoomsBreakAudienceNiceWallCommunicateBreaking Down Author:Aurora Aksnes
“The moment we find the reason behind an emotion the wall is breached, and the positive memories it has kept from us return too. That's why it pays to ask those painful questions. The answers can set you free.” ReasonMomentsAsksMemoriesAnswersPayEmotionBehindsWallReturnPainfulQuestioning Author:Gloria Steinem
“It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into the wall of our dream / till some other door opens. / But the dream is only the flitting costume of one moment, / is spent in one beat / of the darkness, / and falls at our feet, cast off / as the day stirs and sails away with us.” IfsHardMomentsDreamEyeNightFallSleepDarknessDoorsFeetWallBeatsCastsSailCostumesOur Dreams Author:Pablo Neruda
“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.” WayLittlesLongI CanMomentsLightRunningLastsRememberFilmRoomsChildhoodWallDetailsSmellWanderLandscapeLong AgoHungScrap Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman
“In my head I am in one of those Buddhist caves where you see a thousand Buddha faces on the wall. In my head I am on my seventeen-year-old acid trip, when I saw my personas fall one minute after another, as if I was dying every moment.” IfsYearsMomentsFacesFallSawsMinutesDyingWallThousandBuddhistCavesAcidPersonaDrunkennessSeventeenOne MinuteSeventeen Years OldAcid Trip Author:Francesco Clemente
“The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.” IfsImportantMomentsEnemyWallWeaknessDefeatedConqueror Book:Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos Source: Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos