Vertical Quotes - Page 3

• I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Respect, Believe, People

  "Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from the Progressive Magazine" by David Barsamian, (p. 146), 2004.

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• The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don’t need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to go there, to gather and think deep thoughts together.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Thinking, Axes

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• He is only happy when he can maintain himself - mentally and spiritually - at the intersection between a vertical line and horizontal one, in a state of perfect balance. For this, he needs to know where he is located every moment, both in his relationship to the divine and to his family here on earth. If he loses that balance, he loses his power.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Perfect, Balance, Needs

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.238, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

  Abe Ajay

  Discovery, Numbers, Might

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• The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

  David Harvey

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Form

  "The Limits To Capital". Book by David Harvey, 1982.

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• We cannot take a single step toward heaven. It is not in our power to travel in a vertical direction. If however we look heavenward for a long time, God comes and takes us up.

  Simone Weil

  God, Long, Heaven

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.73, Routledge

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• When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

  Mervyn Peake

  Eye, Doors, Iron

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• my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Water, Faces, Bears

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Doe, Needs, Neighbor

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.200, David C Cook

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• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Purple, Typical

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• I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Thinking, Progress

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• The human comedy begins with a vertical smile.

  Richard Condon

  Comedy, Birth, Humans

  Richard Condon (1971). “The vertical smile”

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• The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.

  Ella Maillart

  Running, Dying, Woven

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• You must develop a sense of what you can contribute that goes beyond 1 company or organization. A career path today will likely involve moving from organization to organization, creating a picture of rising circles, rather than a vertical ladder. In fact, a vertical rise within one organization will very likely move you away from your strongest areas of competence.

  Dan Miller

  Moving, Circles, Careers

  Dan Miller (2010). “48 Days to the Work You Love: An Interactive Study”, p.9, B&H Publishing Group

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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• The heart sags. My footprints forget me.
  I don’t think anything will ever be the same.
  This is the edge of the cliff and you can’t move,
  can’t jump. Everything is vertical. With binoculars
  you can see where you’ll be in an hour. Raindrops
  collect on the lens. A fine mist. It hides us.
  It drifts into clocks. Gravity presses your hands.
  Some hurts never get said. Some get smuggled.

  Richard Jackson

  Hurt, Moving, Heart

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• Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

  Le Corbusier

  New York, Cities, Manhattan

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• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Richard Ben-Veniste

  Respect, Decision, Information

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 20, 2004.

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• In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.

  Jürgen Moltmann

  Christian, Political, Alternatives

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• If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it?

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Curves, Axes, Two

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.85, Harvard University Press

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Feet, Clothes

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• But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beauty, Eye, Virginia

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1541, Library of America

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• If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

  Joel Houston

  Song, Nice, Heart

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• The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. Smoothing (in one white lacy euphemism after another) out all the black bleak angular unangelic nauseous ugliness of the blasted sterile world: dry buds, shrunken stone houses, dead vertical moving people all all all go under the great white beguiling wave. And come out transformed. Lose yourself in a numb dumb snow-daubed lattice of crystal and come out pure with the white virginal veneer you never had.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moving, Weather, White

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.73, Anchor

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• In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

  George Stigler

  Survivor, Topics, Size

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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