Wedges Quotes - Page 4

• Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Punishment, Suffering And Death

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• Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bird, Study, Awareness

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• What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.

  Paul Krugman

  Memories, War, Hero

  "The Years of Shame". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 11, 2011.

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• If you read 1 John you'll see that love of God and neighbour are very closely tied together. Partly this is because all humans are made in God's image, so that when you love another human you are loving someone who is reflecting God himself. Of course there is a distinction but the minute you try to drive a wedge between the two things start to fall apart.

  N. T. Wright

  Fall, Two, Loving Someone

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

  Ross Bleckner

  Thinking, Broken, Perspective

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• In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Hymns, Long

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Poet And Memoirist Maya Angelou". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2014.

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• I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

  Aaron Allston

  Daughter, Fire, Years

  Aaron Allston (2008). “Fury: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.278, Del Rey

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• On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.

  David Bennun

  Mistake, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Heart, Dark

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster

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• When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

  Ernest Becker

  Love, Animal, Men

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• I just didn't feel comfortable hitting a wedge. To me it's against the spirit of the game, and maybe it would have been against the spirit of a Frenchman.

  Jean van de Velde

  Golf, Games, Hitting

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• A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate millions... Of all targets New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

  E. B. White

  New York, Islands, Bridges

  "Here Is New York". Book by E. B. White, 1948.

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• One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

  James Keller

  Business, Heart, Pride

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• The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

  Tim McCarver

  Sports, Country, Mean

  "Oh, Baby, I Love It!". Book by Ray Robinson and Tim McCarver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1987.

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• If you are a bad putter, you will not make a putt. If you have a tendency to chili-dip wedges, you'll be chili-dipping them all over the place for sure. Whatever your weakness, it will come up in spades during the Ryder Cup.

  Johnny Miller

  Weakness, Cups, Dip

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• For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick.

  Janel Parrish

  Summer, Color, Trends

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love chilling in a cute sweatsuit and wedge sandals or sneakers.

  Vivica Fox

  Cute, Sneakers, Chill

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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• Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

  Ted Turner

  Music, Peace, Common Humanity

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• I was always übersexual...I was always wearing the smallest clothes I could find. I would go to the mall like that — in a short, short skirt and a giant wedge heel. That's what you do when you're a teenage girl in a small town.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Teenage, Clothes

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• Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

  Aaron Allston

  Victory, Want, Biographies

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• Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Angel, Cake, Special

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• We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

  Danny Glover

  Hard Questions, Asks, Hard

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• Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance and delusion, through the alluvium which covers the globe, through poetry and philosophy and religion, through church and state, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, till we come to a hard bottom that rocks in place which we can call reality and say, "This is and no mistake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  New York, Philosophy, Mistake

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• For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Thinking, Attachment

  Virginia Woolf (1937). “To the Lighthouse”

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