Plunge Quotes - Page 11

• The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.

  Ani DiFranco

  Children, Animal, Feminist

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• The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. .. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Pain, Moving, Knowing

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• The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Water, Swim

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.1, Random House

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• The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling-it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Strong, Lying

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• The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands trembling on the shore in his beach robe. The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the grieves and shames of others.

  Janet Malcolm

  Beach, Grieving, Self

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• It is my PRIDE, my damned, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19 - 20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such; --or DIE --perplexing alternative!

  Thomas Chatterton

  Pride, Alternatives, Unconquerable Will

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• The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.

  Ben Marcus

  Thinking, Hands, Worry

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• The older I get and the more fiction I write, the more I outline, the more I think about plot before I dive in and plunge too far.

  Dave Barry

  Writing, Thinking, Plot

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• I really need to know where I'm going with fiction to write it in a way that at least I'm happy with. And I really think that a lot of fiction books end badly because terrific writers said, "I'll just figure it out" and plunge in, but have created so many problems that they are kind of impossible to solve. I mean, I'm talking really good writers do this and you can tell when they got to the end they either had to do something preposterous or they just don't really resolve things. So for fiction I spend a lot more time outlining and for humor I really don't do much of it.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.

  Jack Balkin

  Bullying, Attitude, Men

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• The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Support, Individuality, Depth

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• Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Suicide, Sleep, Sea

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.188

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• Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Dark, Night, Reflection

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• A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.

  Ogden Nash

  Book, Bird, Ignorant

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• At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise

  Crazy Horse

  Water, Joints, Body

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• Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.

  Joseph Plaskett

  Painting

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• Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

  Arthur Adamov

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

  John Claypool

  Light, Understanding, Trying

  John R. Claypool (2004). “Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief”, p.12, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'

  Quentin Crisp

  Drinking, Names, Voice

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 27, 1968.

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• The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames;
  Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves.
  When eagles are in view, the screaming doves
  Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

  Colley Cibber

  Fear, Men, Feet

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• If a lot of money goes into the stock market, it'll push up prices, making money for stock speculators. Then the insiders can decide that it's time to sell out, and the market will plunge.

  Michael Hudson

  Making Money, Push Ups, Speculators

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.

  Brandon Boyd

  Morning, Fall, Sea

  "Interview with Incubus Frontman Brandon Boyd". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, California, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• In any matter of moral importance, our first task, before we plunge ahead and decide what to do, is to figure out what we ought to do.

  Allen W. Wood

  Tasks, Matter, Firsts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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