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wall loneliness men
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor. Carlos Castaneda
wall space infinity
Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. Carlos Castaneda
wall warrior winning
Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them. Carlos Castaneda
wall warrior men
Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity. Carlos Castaneda
wall broken people
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after. C. S. Lewis
wall hands government
The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have. Agnes Macphail
wall gun men
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns. Aaron Sorkin
wall character storytelling
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder. Aaron Sorkin
wall character writing
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation. Charlotte Bronte
civilization people way
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier
civilization tea england
English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. Agnes Repplier
civilization numbers individuality
You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Alan Rudolph
civilization roots leisure
At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. Charles de Gaulle
civilization luxury selfishness
A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization stuff jingles
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. David Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
magic literacy aim
To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. Alan Kay
magic invisible stills
That's the thing about magic; you've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. Charles de Lint
magic-in-the-world way doe
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves. Charles de Lint
magic legends myth
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused. Charles de Lint
magic needs
Magic's never what you expect it to be, but it's often what you need. Charles de Lint
magic kind combination
For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before. Brian Eno
magic elements return
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas. Caio Fonseca
magic paper perfume
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
magic
Touch magic. Pass it on. Jane Yolen