Void Quotes - Page 15

• Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Opportunity, Practice, Optimism

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• There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood

  Sadness, Eye, Darkness

  Jon Courtenay Grimwood (2017). “End Of The World Blues”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void

  Hervey Allen

  Color, Borders, Tendencies

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• Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that events somehow already exist in the future, reach the present at a determined moment, and finally come to rest in the past. But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute. Therefore such a person has his face toward the void, whereas it is the past behind him that is visible, stored in the memory.

  Harry Mulisch

  Memories, Past, Might

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• If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

  Jason Evert

  Silence, Teens, World

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• Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Revolutionary

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.

  Ralph Blum

  Forever, May, Moments

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• That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

  Tim Tharp

  Mind, Different, Floating

  Tim Tharp (2008). “The Spectacular Now”, p.119, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women's choices concerning childbirth.

  Adrienne Rich

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

  Low Thia Khiang

  People, World, Interviews

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• Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love for Him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him. And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Sadness, Heart, Knowing

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• Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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• C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.

  Alan Perlis

  Casts, Programmers, Dies

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• An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void.

  James Otis

  Constitution, Natural, Equity

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761

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• The last kiss is given to the void.

  Aidan Higgins

  Kissing, Lasts, Given

  Aidan Higgins (1997). “Flotsam and jetsam”

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• Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

  Sengcan

  Oneness, Entanglement, Serene

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• When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

  Terence McKenna

  Art, Dimensions, Obligation

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• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  George Kubler

  Real, Dark, Past

  Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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• The mind remains undetermined in the great Void. Here the highest knowledge is unbounded. That which gives things their thusness cannot be delimited by things. So when we speak of 'limits', we remain confined to limited things. The limit of the unlimited is called 'fullness.' The limitlessness of the limited is called 'emptiness.' Tao is the source of both. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness

  Zhuangzi

  Giving, Mind, Limits

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• [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, People, Acting

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track. Just a few minutes, and the void is kept at bay. You will live forever with that new road inside of you, stretching away to a place suggested, barely, on the horizon. For the shortest time, shorter than the shortest second's breath, you get to stand up to infinity. But eventually, and always, infinity wins.

  Lauren Oliver

  Life, Winning, Track

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Rooms”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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• All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Color, Profound, Masters

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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• Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

  Roger Scruton

  Space, Building, Dialogue

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• At some time in the history of the universe, there were no human minds, and at some time later, there were. Within the blink of a cosmic eye, a universe in which all was chaos and void came to include hunches, beliefs, sentiments, raw sensations, pains, emotions, wishes, ideas, images, inferences, the feel of rubber, Schadenfreude, and the taste of banana ice cream.

  David Berlinski

  Pain, Eye, Ideas

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