Surface Quotes - Page 33

• Beyond surfaces, you must be intuitively at ease.

  Judith Orloff

  Ease

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.26, Harmony

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• When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

  Elaine Scarry

  Beautiful, Space, Tears

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• The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.

  Christopher Flavin

  Years, Wind, Land

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• When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
  I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
  But when I reached the depths,
  I became very still.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lakes, Circles, Depth

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• When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

  Mark Twain

  Food, Men, Dinner

  Mark Twain (1984). “Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions”, Harpercollins

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• When you’re confronted by a really difficult thing in your life, you’re faced with a choice: you can runaway from it, or you can face it, confront it, and work through it. But to work through it, sometimes feels like holding your own head below water when you’re already drowning. Your natural instinct when drowning is to get back up to the surface and give yourself some relief from that terrible situation…you just want to breathe again.

  Buck 65

  Giving, Water, Choices

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• I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Education, Running, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

  Dennis McKenna

  Ignorance, Understanding, Spheres

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• Beneath their surface differences, there are a lot of deep, underlying differences.

  Dave Barry

  Differences, Interesting

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• When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Interesting, Lucky

  Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seelig, (p. 80), 1956.

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• As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications.

  Charles Darwin

  Beautiful, Believe, Broken

  Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.304, OUP Oxford

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• The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Volcanoes, Dancing, Germany

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• Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

  David Nalbandian

  Player, Pay, Pressure

  "David Nalbandian attacks ATP after kick gifts title to Marin Cilic" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

  Anne Carson

  Emotional, Thinking, Sensual

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• People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.

  Stan Barstow

  Real, People, Sometimes

  Stan Barstow (1969). “The hidden part”

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• Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

  Harville Hendrix

  Romantic Love, Frustration, Childhood

  Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt (2013). “Making Marriage Simple: Ten Relationship-Saving Truths”, p.21, Harmony

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• Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that way. In reality, we have doubts just like everyone else.
  Bringing your Lead’s doubts to the surface in your plot pulls the reader deeper into the story, and this is an excellent way to coax the reader to lose himself in the story world you’re about to create.

  James Scott Bell

  Writing, Character, Reality

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• The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

  George Mercer Dawson

  Stones, Fossils, Sand

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• Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

  Josh Gates

  Home, Growth, Doe

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• Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its lustre. Domestic slavery existed among a people who had themselves disdained to submit to a master.

  James Forten

  Country, Dark, People

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• In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Practice, Meditation, Mind

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• When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Dog, Writing

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• I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.

  John Singer Sargent

  Eye, Beneath The Surface, My Own

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• Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

  Ali Smith

  Two, Narrative, Invisible

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• In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

  Rudolf Carnap

  Depth

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