“I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and pieces, and yet I know what it is, with that bold and legitimate certainty with which we assert our knowledge of a city, without ever having been rewarded with the intimacy of all the many streets it includes.” KnowsBookLanguageBitsCitiesPathPiecesStreetsPagesHundredSevenCertaintyIntimacyBits And Pieces Book:Selected Non-fictions Source: Selected Non-fictions
“The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.” SimplePathPagesGloriousTragicFree Society Author:Vladimir Putin
“Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous as long as they wait to be read--these inked paths opening into the future, page after page, every book its own receding horizon. And I hold them, one in each hand, a curious ballast weighing me here to earth.” IfsLongBookHandsEarthLife IsChoicesGrowsWaitingPathBrokenPagesLuckMoodOpeningCuriousHorizonCowsShelvesGreedySweetestExaltedPasturesWeighingBrowsingBallast Author:Linda Pastan
“For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf” IfsMaySaidLightEyeLeftWhiteBreakCasesPathSawsWiseChangedBrokenPagesMovedRingsColourMakersWovenRobesHueBewilderedWhite LightSaruman Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43]” ShouldValuesVisionPathPagesClarityJudgedModelingImplementation Author:Donella Meadows
“You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.” PathPagesTitles Book:Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers