Mazes Quotes - Page 7

• Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' conducted on the teli. Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

  Ilana Mercer

  Running, Intelligent, Thinking

  "Left and Right Bamboozling You on Benghazi". www.wnd.com. January 09, 2014.

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• There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Education, Tired, Science

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• Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

  Rae Foley

  Depressing, People, Looks

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• The greatness of common sense, and its title to reverence, appear in this, that it deals with vast complexity, that is, with the innumerable elements of a situation. Common sense discerns and judges a path through this knotted and tangled maze.

  James Vila Blake

  Greatness, Common Sense, Judging

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  Running, Father, Loss

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• Two children, all alone and no one by,
  Holding their tattered frocks, thro'an airy maze
  Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
  Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
  Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.

  Laurence Binyon

  Children, Eye, Two

  Laurence Binyon (1926). “Laurence Binyon”

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• In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in the maze of materials ... being studied, and to correlate the material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency towards intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects one studies, a live rapport with them, so to speak, which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations.

  David Hilbert

  Stress, Hands, Two

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• The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Thoughtful, Errors, Long

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• There is a great deal we never think of calling religion that is still fruit unto God, and garnered by Him in the harvest. The fruits of the Spirit are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience, goodness. I affirm that if these fruits are found in any form, whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive; being honest true besides, you bring forth truth unto God.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Children, Dark, Nursing

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• If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Running, Brain

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One)”, p.279, Delacorte Press

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• She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

  James Dashner

  Wall, Effort, Emotion

  James Dashner (2016). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.1005, Delacorte Press

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• The Cloud Maze. “ An Excursion in Dimension A Climb Though the Firmament; There Is No Beginning There Is No End Enter Where You Please Leave When You Wish Have No Fear of Falling

  Erin Morgenstern

  Fall, Clouds, Wish

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.204, Random House

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• Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Real, Sight, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.272, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.

  Jacqueline Cochran

  Stars, Cutting, Views

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Gay, Skills

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.222

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• Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Kings, Ambition

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 1

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• If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon lawyers who make the law of evidence one of our peculiar studies. Our profession leads us to explore the mazes of falsehood, to detect its artifices, to pierce its thickest veils, to follow and expose its sophistries, to compare the statements of different witnesses with severity, to discover truth and separate it from error.

  Simon Greenleaf

  Men, Errors, Law

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• In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Song, Fate

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.146

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• The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Exit, Chaos

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

  Luke Jermay

  Atheist, Opposites, Enjoy

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• So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health.

  B. J. Palmer

  Communication, Body, Flow

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• Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Selfish, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dancing, Giddy, Waltz

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