Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Jurassic Park

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.

Reflections

If he (John Adams) could not control events, he could at least record them for posterity – perhaps the ultimate form of control.

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives...

The Runaway Queen

The habit of considering a man’s religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.

Sceptical Essays

Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.

Small Gods

Never give up! With every step you take in your journey, you are forming your dreams.

Seasons of a Single Girl

A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.

Split Infinity

I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.

Maze of Existence

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

The Myths We Live by

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

Naked Lunch

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.

Norwegian Wood

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)

Les Misérables

This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.

Looking for God in Harry Potter

Does your frustration equate a certain form of revenge? Bright light shines upon me despite of hills of frustration.

Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way