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“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape, an unspace to link One-place-town to Another-place-town over a river or a road or a tangle of railway tracks or a quarry, or to attach an island to another island or to the continent from which it strains. The dream of a bridge is of a woman standing at one side of a gorge and stepping out as if her job is to die, but when her foot falls it meets the ground right on the other side. A bridge is just better than no bridge but its horizon is gaplessness, and the fact of itself should still shame it. But someone had built on this bridge, drawn attention to its matter and failure. An arrogance that thrilled me.”

Dream Failure Bridges Arrogance River Road Bridge Island Shape Quarry Continent Bridging A Bridge Dreaming Bridge Dreams Gaplessness Houses On Bridges Railway Tracks Unspace

Book:This Census-Taker

Source: This Census-Taker

“Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to watch him escape, so that he might be brutalized and killed before their very eyes, as this was much more gratifying to them than simply watching justice be enacted. They, too, understood that societal constructs for justice were moderate gratification, at best, as they were empty and subject to contradictions and compromises steeped in moral relativism and an unconditional dependence upon overblown semantics that made the law a mockery of itself. As for the ideologies that these hollow systems of jurisprudence sought to define and uphold: these could easily be subjugated through a meticulous analysis of the trivial components of one statute or another. The rule of law had failed them. What the people wanted, in its stead, was rather simple: moral absolutes. Good versus evil. And evil was not to be simply prevailed over. Evil was to be dominated and effectively eliminated, because as long as it was able to while away the time somewhere—in some sweaty prison cell, far away, staring out the barred window with a wry smile, as it plotted its next offensive on the Common Good, a sense of wholeness could not be achieved.”

Justice Prison Good And Evil Brutality Common Good Natural Law Contradictions Moral Relativism Quarry Jurisprudence Bloodlust Compromises Dualities Hollow Systems Of Jurisprudence Moral Absolutes Overblown Semantics Societal Contructs For Justice Subjugation Of Law

Book:Don't Forget to Breathe

Source: Don't Forget to Breathe

“If I look closely, I can almost see myself floating in my mother's palm. Yet, when I shut my eyes, I find a different image of my mother releasing me as we dance in the storm and twirl in separate circles that cause the water to ripple from us in widening rings which merge in one ebbing bracelet of waves where the borders of the quarry meet the water, far from the center where my mother and I continue to spin our bodies in the radiant sheen of lightning.”

Mother Water Lightning Floating Mothers And Daughters Quarry Spin Twirl Dance In The Storm Mother S Palm

Book:Floating in My Mother's Palm

Source: Floating in My Mother's Palm

“Within this hollow bed of the stream the whole range of the quarry was out of sight, except for where the just visible peak of an escarpment of spoil shelved up to the horizon's mountainous coagulations of floating cottonwool, a density of white cloud perforated here and there by slowly opening and closing loopholes of the palest blue light.”

Weather Cloud Quarry Blue Light

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

“Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.”

Made Choices Hope Differences Vision Saws Brilliant Sculpture Marble Plumber Quarry Noblemen Guidos

Author:Rob Kall

“It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.”

“Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.”

World Giving May Form Animal Special Genius Fame Increase Tongue Noise Proportion Pursued Hounds Clamor Notoriety Quarry Aloofness

Book:Innocent

Source: Innocent

“The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.”

Source: The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason

“A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.”

Men Father Deals Stones Farms Sheep Quarry

Author:PJ Harvey

“It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.”

Art Enough Play Bigs Wanted Names Black White Rocks Letters Black And White Orange Upside Down Had Enough Mtv Over The Top Quarry Cache

Author:Michael Stipe

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.”

World Facts Humor Cat Remains Pursuit Despite Possessed Tails Chasing Elude Frantic Search For Truth Quarry

Author:Gina Barreca

“The stone in quarries is found to be of different and unlike qualities. In some it is soft, in others it is medium, in still others it is hard as in lava quarries. There are also numerous other kinds: for instance, in Campania, red and black tufas; in Umbria, Picenum, and Venetia, white tufa which can be cut with a toothed saw like wood.”

Kind Stills Different Hard Found Black White Quality Saws Cutting Red Stones Woods Mediums Instance Lava Quarry Umbria Red And Black

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the quarries. Under cover, they play their part well; but in open and exposed situations the frost and rime make them crumble, and they go to pieces. On the seacoast, too, the salt eats away and dissolves them, nor can they stand great heat either.”

Wells Kind Has Beens Play Situation Taken Pieces Advantage Stones Heat Exposed Salt Frost Quarry

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with”

Today Hell Stones West West Africa Quarry Paving

Author:Mary Kingsley

“The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.”

Ifs Men Wells Use Fall Succeed Clever Hunters Careless Undertakings Ambush Quarry

Author:J. K. Bharavi

“So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.”

Air Wide Features Grim Quarry

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

“Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes.”

Dog Cameras Photographer Dumb Faithful Quarry

Author:Tod Papageorge

“When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.”

Kind Would Be Kids Week Locals Hunts Fossils Highlights Quarry

Author:Alice Lowe

“Many hunters and professional soldiers (especially snipers) have remarked how important it is during a stalk to not directly stare or even think hard about your quarry, else he will often sense it. While nobody can adequately explain it, this phenomenon has been noticed by so many people that its truth cannon be questioned”

People Thinking Has Beens Important Hard Gun Soldier Staring Phenomenon Hunters Stalking Cannons Snipers Quarry

Author:Kenneth W. Royce

“Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN. These Newshounds are a sort of pack of wolves, continually looking for quarry, but quarry in the form of images.”

People Form Streets Cameras Video Tape Packs Cnn Taking Pictures Video Cameras Quarry Packs Of Wolves

Author:Paul Virilio

“We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.”

Needs Enough House Names Decision Cases Land Car Deserve London Planning Parks Protected Wasteland Quarry Car Parks

Author:David Lammy

“From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.”

Artist Cities New York New York City Jersey Cliffs Suburbs New Jersey Skylines Quarry

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.”

Author:Blaise Pascal

“"I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him. His eyelashes flutter and he looks at me through a haze of opiates. "Hey, Catnip." "Hey, Gale," I say. "Thought you'd be gone by now," he says. My choices are simple. I can die like a quarry in the woods or I can die here beside Gale. "I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble." "Me, too," Gale says. He just manages a smile before the drugs pull him back under.”

Looks Kind I Can Dies Choices Causes Simple Gone Trouble Drug Kissing Sorry Woods All Kinds Manage Hey Look At Me Gale Eyelashes Haze Opiates Quarry I'm So Sorry

Author:Suzanne Collins

“So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch, About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

Dream Moving Lying Night Approach Slave Silent Graves Mysterious Realms Pleasant Halls Chamber Wraps Couches Dungeons Caravans Quarry Pleasant Dreams

Author:William C. Bryant

“Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and drives them off: to quarries, dumps, small anonymous bodies of water.”

Men Helping Body Able Water Car Ill Dump Quarry Bodies Of Water Ill Tempered

Book:Anagrams

Source: Anagrams

“as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.”

“Me, I was still in the pygmy hippo in a skirt, singing lusty songs about Solomon's private life and a giant stone back and forth through the air as I climbed out of the quarry at the edge of the site.”

Stills Song Air Singing Stones Edges Giants Site Private Life Back And Forth Skirts Solomon Hippo Quarry

Book:The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.”

Thinking Believe War Spirit I Believe Magic Comfort Illusion Cheer Quarry

Book:Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Source: Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.”

Love Life Character Life Is Mold Chisels Quarry

Author:Samuel Butler

“But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.”

Thinking Real Might Lying Tension Spy Quarry

Author:John le Carre

“Sorry-in-the-Vale, Sorriest River, Crying Pools," said Jared. "Is the quarry called Really Depressed Quarry?”

Said Cry Rivers Sorry Pool Quarry

Book:Unspoken

Source: Unspoken

“Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?”

Poor Losing Tiny Captains Resigned Quarry

Author:Gail Carriger

“The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.”

Life Humans Form Pregnant Human Form Quarry

Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield

Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield

“Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting their good qualities." Asked if he believed all people were kind at their core, he responded, "There is no doubt whatsoever, provided you are able to arouse their inherent goodness." If that sounds like wishful thinking, well, he actually did it.”

Source: The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness

“The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.”

Knows Humans Lying History Flesh Tales Giants Fairy Historian Fairy Tale Scent Quarry

Book:The Historian's Craft

Source: The Historian's Craft

“Isn’t there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you’ve hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in the woods? … Isn’t there a bird or covey that somehow always manages to catch you with your gun on safe — even when you know it’s there? “I think we all know times that for almost certain we gave the hunt to the quarry.”

Thinking Knows Two Done Remember Certain Animal Safe Bird Gun Woods Manage Hunts Remember When Hunted Quarry

Author:Gene Hill

“It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.”

Whole Journey Objects Killing Crafts Destination Hunting Hunters Paradoxical Employing Quarry

Author:Philip Caputo

“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”

Humans Soul Shows Body Running Education Skills Shining Clouds Surface Spots Colour Inherent Veins Human Soul Marble Fetch Quarry

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.”

Sea Rivers Fishes Partners Boat Lakes Fishing Fly Fishing Great Fishing Quarry

Author:Arnold Gingrich

“The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”

Dream Death Lying Approach Graves Pleasant Wraps Couches Quarry Pleasant Dreams

Author:William C. Bryant

“Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments.”