Shelves Quotes - Page 23

• Potential has a shelf life.

  Margaret Atwood

  Shelf Life

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• The horrors of Vivisection have supplanted the solemnity, the thrilling fascination, of the old unetherized operation upon the human sufferer. Their recorded phenomena, stored away by the physiological inquisitor on dusty shelves, are mostly of as little present use to man as the knowledge of a new comet or of a tungstate of zirconium ... -contemptibly small compared with the price paid for it in agony and torture.

  Henry Jacob Bigelow

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  "Surgical Anaesthesia: Addresses and Other Papers". P. 309. Book by Henry Jacob Bigelow, 1894.

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• Which is the woman, which the child? The joyous laugh that opens doors, steals sugared moments from the shelf? Or the dreamer mixing metaphors with tears to make a book of self To read aloud in winter's rooms When summer's sounds have ceased to bloom?

  Katie Louchheim

  Summer, Dream, Laughter

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

  Willis Regier

  Eye, Sagging, Bears

  Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

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• Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

  Megan Crane

  Book, Ceilings, Towers

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• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Believe, Dark

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• Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Views, Tea, Mountain

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• The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Self, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Prayer, Father

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• If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Leaving, Insecurity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Sex, Believe, Book

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• Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Book, Divorce, Past

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• Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.

  Sam Ewing

  Book, Computer, Floppy Disks

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• When it comes to religion, we're not two sides of the same coin, and you don't get to put your unreason up on the same shelf with my reason. Your stuff has to go over there, on the shelf with Zeus and Thor and the Kraken, with the stuff that is not evidence-based, stuff that religious people never change their mind about, no matter what happens.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Kraken, Two Sides

  "Real Time With Bill Maher", February 03, 2012.

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• I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

  Richard Scarry

  Book, Scotch, Creating

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• I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Bookstores, Sitting, Pages

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• Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.

  David Quammen

  Book, Comforting, Intellectual

  David Quammen (2012). “The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

  Christopher Dodd

  Food, Forget The Past, Easy

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• There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Lasts, Closing

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

  Helene Hanff

  Book, Long, Relax

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• My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Daughter, Children, Book

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• If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Fall, Eye

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• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Teacher, Book

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• [His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dark, Library

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