Mixtures Quotes - Page 18

• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Sadness, Profound

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• Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Years, Preparation

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Memories, Lying, Hair

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

  Robert Fulghum

  Ignorance, Pride, Knows

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reality, Common Sense, Brain

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• We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

  Rumi

  Healing, Use, Chiropractic

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• For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality.

  Adrian Carton de Wiart

  Military, Fighting, Discipline

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• A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Crafts, Chef, Artistry

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• I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

  Bapsi Sidhwa

  Inspirational, Life, Country

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• The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

  James Dickey

  Unique, Literature, South

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• We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

  Saul Bellow

  Mean, Choices, Tragedy

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.90, Penguin

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• It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar.

  Judith Martin

  Precious Stones, Dinner, Comfort

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• We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

  Jill Tarter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Long

  "Join the SETI search". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

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• What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Passion, Games

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• [This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general and the Periodic Law.... Chemical homogeneity is no longer a guarantee that any supposed element is not a mixture of several of different atomic weights, or that any atomic weight is not merely a mean number.

  Frederick Soddy

  Mean, Science, Light

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• The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Forever, Mind

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.94, Editions Le Mono

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• From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Light, Sight

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.9, Rebel Press

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• My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.

  Elizabeth Streb

  Sports, Kids, Heart

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• The erotic state – again, a mixture of concentration and spontaneity – is a hypnoidal state, probably the most powerful kind that we are capable of experiencing, and it is in this condition that unexpected regions of the self are revealed, as the majority of people know from experience.

  Peter Redgrove

  Powerful, Self, People

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• Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.

  Edna Ferber

  Marriage, Hurt, Stars

  Edna Ferber (1962). “Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life”

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• The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

  Franz Kafka

  Determination, Self, Cosmos

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.

  Horace Walpole

  Religion, Mistress, Age

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• Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster

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• There appears to be but two grand master passions or movers in the human mind, namely, love and pride. And what constitutes the beauty or deformity of a man's character is the choice he makes under which banner he determines to enlist himself. But there is a strong distinction between different degress in the same thing and a mixture of two contraries.

  Sarah Fielding

  Strong, Passion, Character

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