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Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”

“Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.”

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Spiritual seeking means knowing this negative part: that desiring is the root cause of frustration. To desire is to create, of one`s own accord, a shell. Desiring is the world. To be worldly is to desire and to go on desiring, never becoming aware that each desire comes to nothing but frustration. Once you become aware of this, then you do not desire, or your only desire is to know what is.”

Knows World Mean Spiritual Desire Causes Knowing Goes On Becoming Negative Roots Seeking Frustration Shells Worldly Accord Root Cause

Author:Rajneesh

“A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.”

Long Form Creatures Attachment Shells Turtles Leeches

Book:Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs

“In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.”

Kind Stills Matter Hard Body Earth Science Sides Animal Existence Cases Rocks Produce Plant Bones Surface Possessed Shells Smooth Fossils Crystals Fluid Containing

Author:Nicolas Steno

“I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean.”

Science Rocks Ocean Stones Convinced Observation Substance Sand Shells Clay Spoil Marble Geology Chalk Limes

Book:Natural History, General and Particular

Source: Natural History, General and Particular

“There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.”

Body Bigs Faces Shells Floating Memorial Memorial Day Landing Geysers

Author:Elliot Johnson

“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.”

Ifs Life Made Hard Reality Would Be Science Sports Water Nature Chance Creative Alive Rocks Creation Shapes Stones Impression Delusion Shells Vague Superficial Mud Creative Power

Author:Agostino Scilla

“To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.”

World Mind Children Matter Moments Use Hands Science Time Effort Seeking Beach Hiding Dedication Shells Here And There Newton Gems Pebbles Hiding Place Forlorn Forlorn Hope

Author:Frank Drake

“The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.”

Way Different Science Born Study Approach Models Experiments Data Different Ways Shells Thorough Interconnection

Author:Maria Goeppert-Mayer

“In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.”

People Said Home Culture Animal Integrity Shells Snail Valiant

Author:Susan Cain

“The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.”

Ifs Want Religion Powerful Break All Things Essence Symbols Shells Cracked Kernel

Author:Meister Eckhart

“Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.”

“The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.”

War Reason Water Cry Holes Shells Wounded Down The Road Great War

Author:Edwin Campion Vaughan

“He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'”

Ifs Firsts Looks Said Moments Felt Forget Five Grace Baby Despair Mouths Grateful Casts Wide Opening Comic Never Forget Smallest Shells Selected

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Give my scallop-shell of quiet, My staff of faith to walk upon, My scrip of joy, immortal diet, My bottle of salvation, My gown of glory, hope's true gage; And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.”

Giving Joy Hope Walks Quiet Glory Salvation Diets Immortal Bottles Shells Staff Pilgrimage Gowns Scallops

Author:Walter Raleigh

“It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.”

Fall Realizing Emotional Essentials Transformation Psychological Bad Things Shells Falling Apart Emotional Baggage

Author:Joanna Macy

“Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.”

Soul Song Music Sea Strange Eternal Music Is Singing Bird Eternity Shore Shells

Author:J. G. Holland

“The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.”

Littles Body Lasts Spirit Grief Half Mountain Importance Finals Buried Stillness Shells Slipping Mountain Top

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.”

Easier Scripts Programming Shells Port Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Larry Wall

“Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.”

Men Should Death Turns Fashion Fame Shells Initials Tortoises Haphazard Bogs

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.”

Firsts Earth Science Steps Study First Steps Shells Fossils

Author:Giovanni Battista Brocchi

“In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.”

Would Be Past Mines Shells Remarks Casual

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons.”

People Giving Firsts Looks Persons Doe Art Reason Done Earth Lasts Opportunity Sports Black Coaches Als Annoying Toms Shells Coincidence Hispanic Head Coaches Inclusiveness

Author:Amy Trask

“I think I've always been half out of my shell and half in. Sometimes I can be extremely wild and sometimes I can be extremely shy. It just depends on the day.”

Thinking I Can Sometimes Half Depends Shy Shells

Author:Emile Hirsch

“Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.”

Children Home Today Literature Lost Hours Lust Beach Shells Rope High Heels Seaweed Luster

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Pain is a spiritual wake-up call showing you that there are oceans you have not yet explored. Step beyond the world you know. Reach for heights that you never thought possible. Go to places you have deemed off limits. This is the time to take off the shell of your past and step into the rich possibilities of your future. God does not give us dreams that we cannot fulfill. If you want to do something great with your life-whether it's to fall madly in love, become a teacher, be a great parent-if you aspire to do something beyond what you are doing now, this is the time to begin. Trust yourself.”

“As an actor, you’ve got to live and learn, and you gotta just kind of form a hard shell and be confident in yourself.”

Kind Hard Form Actors Shells Be Confident Live And Learn Confident In Yourself

Author:Jessica Stroup

“Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.”

Hard Moments Song Music Prison Borders Slips Shells Penetrate Always Believe Funny Things Right Moment

Author:Pete Seeger

“I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.”

Knows Littles Persons Stills Sometimes Yeah Likes Shells Outgoing

Author:Ashley Tisdale

“I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it. Having seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, the results of torture, mutilation and seeing someone blown to pieces by a bomb, you develop a kind of shell. But you had to. You had to. Otherwise, we would never have won.”

Men Humans Kind Facts Dies Can Do Human Beings Results Pieces Seeing Worst Fronts Torture Bombs Shells Hardened Mutilation

Author:Christopher Lee

“There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.”

Ifs Way I Can Whole Hands Turns Force Heaven Stars Creation Flower Patterns Shells Petals Levers Twigs

Book:The Fool's Girl

Source: The Fool's Girl

“I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days. I think I will go learn more about coral only to learn a lot more about corollary and counterturn and coffin nail. I go from magnificence to means to marquee to maniac to distyle, ductile, hindsight, shell game, veronica, yardstick, ball field, magpie, variegated, and close shave.”

Thinking Needs Mean Games Attention Fields Balls Shells Nails Salad Hindsight Coffins Magnificence Maniacs Yardsticks Safari Magpies Marquee

Author:Dara Wier

“I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on days when the clock stopped and all of humanity fit into a little chapel, into a pinecone, a shot of ouzo, a snail's shell, a piece of soggy rye on the pavement.”

Children Littles Remember Humanity Hours Pieces Happened Poet Grew Fit Grew Up Shots Miles Clock Sixty Shells Pavement Snail Chapel

Author:Mary Ruefle

“I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to flow in and out with ease, is what I aspire to become: a vessel through which feelings can pour in and spill right out again, without all the grasping and holding that obstructs the flow. Can I be as serene and simple as this bleached shell, rubbed smooth by wind and water, receiving and releasing, filling and emptying and filling again, eternally receptive to the currents of life?”

Feelings Hands Water My Own Simple Divine Wind Flow Fingers Currents Surface Ease Pockets Receiving Shells Smooth Aspire Shallow Jeans Filling Vessel Serene Spills Grasping Receptive Chalice

Author:Katrina Kenison

“The harsh, unyielding reality of having to compromise your ideals bit by bit, day by day, just to achieve a few little victories in the face of the world’s malice, or indifference. Until sometimes you wonder if there’s nothing left of you but the shell of the man you intended to be, just going through the motions because you’ve nothing better to do.”

Ifs Men World Littles Sometimes Reality Faces Left Bits Wonder Achieve He Man Victory Ideals Compromise Indifference Shells Harsh Malice Unyielding

Book:Something from the Nightside

Source: Something from the Nightside

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

Inspirational Would Be Young Too Much Our Lives Bears Basketball Shells

Book:Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

Source: Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

“Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.”

May Success Bears Eternity Fruit Rough Shells Germs

Author:Frances Harper

“Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.”

Whole Tree Rocks Clouds Smoke Shells Peppers Torso Parts Of A Whole

Book:The daybooks of Edward Weston

Source: The daybooks of Edward Weston

“In the circle of light on the state in the midst of darkness, you have the sensation of being entirely alone... This is called solitude in public... During a performance, before an audience of thousands, you can always enclose yourself in this circle, like a snail in its shell... You can carry it wherever you go.”

States Light Darkness Audience Solitude Performances Circles Midst Sensations Shells Losing Yourself Snail

Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.”

Knows Lying Atheism Positive Atheism Creeds Shells

Book:What's o'clock

Source: What's o'clock

“As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.”

Boys Nuclear Shells Hermits Crabs Lobster Hermit Crabs

Author:Thom Yorke

“It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.”

Seems Animal Worst Mass Description Shells Plague Snail Slugs Slime

Book:An Island Garden

Source: An Island Garden

“People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour.”

People Made Bread Shells Peas Flour

Author:Bel Kaufman

“Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.”

Ifs Wells Helping Can Do Company Trouble Climbing Reserves Shells Absolutely Nothing Trenches Slits

Author:David Kenyon Webster

“She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.”

People Ifs Hard Literature Strange Cracks Shells

Book:Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner

Source: Frye Street & environs: the collected works of Marita Bonner

“I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.”

“Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew stong; While Scale in Hand Dame Justice pass'd along Before her each with clamour pleads the Laws. Explain'd the matter, and would win the cause, Dame Justice wighing long the doubtful Right Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight. The cause of strife remov'd so rarely well, "There take" (says Justice), "take ye each a shell. We thrive at Westminster on Fools like you: 'Twas a fat oyster - live in peace - Adieu."”

“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.”

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