Tissues Quotes - Page 8

• Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family and friends and neighbors and the woman you hardly notice who cleans your office. Happiness is not a noun or verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

  Eric Weiner

  People, Office, Family And Friends

  Eric Weiner (2008). “The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World”, p.179, Hachette UK

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• I confess to a rare problem - gynekinetophobia, or the fear of women falling on me - but this is a rather mild illness compared with many affluent suburbanites, who have developed an almost total zoophobia, or fear of anything that moves. It is, as any traveller can confirm, a complaint best developed in the affluent North American, and it seems to be part of blue toilet dyes, air fresheners, lots of paper tissues, and two showers a day.

  Bill Mollison

  Moving, Fall, Air

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Doors, Giving, Verbs

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.89, Delacorte Press

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• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.

  Angela Carter

  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

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• When we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls.

  John J. Geddes

  Perfect, Soul, Copiers

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• Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Legs, Arms, Human Experience

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• Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Real, Feet

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• You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. It is unstealable. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

  Arnold Bennett

  Good Morning, Time, Purses

  "How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day".

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• What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Laughter, Sea, Fishing

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• We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Silence, Woven, Speech

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1973). “The Prose of the World”, p.46, Northwestern University Press

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• Although we tend to think of the brain as a discrete organ - a lump of squidgy tissue - it is better to think of it as part of an elaborate network of nervous tissue that reaches out to every single part of the body.

  Tim Birkhead

  Thinking, Brain, Body

  Tim Birkhead (2012). “Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

  Stephen King

  Life, Stars, Lying

  Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

  Philip Yancey

  Hurt, Healing, People

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• Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.

  Colleen Houck

  Heartbreak, Healing, Names

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• [The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

  George Wilson

  Chlorine, Action, Impression

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• Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Cells, Giving

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• O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light!
  There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night;
  Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,
  And, bending above thee, the angels draw near,
  And sing, - "The rainbow! the rainbow!
  "The smile of God is here."

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Beautiful, Angel, Night

  "A complete dictionary of poetical quotations".

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• The summer day is closed - the sun is set:
  Well they have done their office, those bright hours,
  The latest of whose train goes softly out
  In the red west. The green blade of the ground
  Has risen, and herds have cropped it; the young twig
  Has spread its plaited tissues to the sun;
  Flowers of the garden and the waste have blown
  And withered; seeds have fallen upon the soil,
  From bursting cells, and in their graves await
  Their resurrection. Insects from the pools
  Have filled the air awhile with humming wings,
  That now are still for ever; painted moths
  Have wandered the blue sky, and died again

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Flower, Garden

  William Cullen Bryant, “From: An Evening Revery”

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• If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Would Be, Whole

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1949*). “War and peace: a novel”

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• All men even, I have written, Jesus Christ began as flecks of tissue inside a woman's womb. Every boy must stagger out of the shadow of a mother goddess, whom he never fully escapes.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Boys

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology that the whole of life has been a process of change and transformation. From biology we know that our tissues are not impenetrable reservoirs of vital magic, but a stunning matrix of complex wonders, ultimately explicable in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. With such knowledge we can see, perhaps for the first time, why a Creator would have allowed our species to be fashioned by the process of evolution.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Magic, Paleontology, Process Of Change

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• In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

  Henci Goer

  Medicine, Skins, Crowns

  Henci Goer (1995). “Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature”, p.276, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Selfishness

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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• [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

  George Will

  Top Down, Coercion, Politics

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Holiday, Storm

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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