Quotes of: Physical-violence Keyword

It was not about physical strength, Wit reminded himself. It was 90 percent mental, 10 percent physical. That's what the SEAL instructors were looking for: men and women who could disregard the pleadings of the body. Pain was nothing, sleep was nothi...

Earth Awakens

In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turb...

Born of Shadows

Ayahuasca ceremonies are usually very structured rituals where the shaman or shamana holds the space and guides the drinkers on their journeys of discovery. The shaman is not just administering the hallucinogenic brew; he or she is also calling in th...

Aya: A Shamanic Odyssey

Truly to realize the ambitions of a science of mind does not solely involve learning about such issues as how we know, perceive and solve problems; it involves finding out tow hat extent the world outside us is knowable by us, and indeed prescribing ...

The Search For Mind: A New Foundation For Cognitive Science

A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's external crust, and finally of the origin and development of living organisms. These con...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics ...

Max Born

's standpoint, that a space-time description is impossible, I reject a limine. Physics does not consist only of atomic research, science does not consist only of physics, and life does not consist only of science. The aim of atomic research is to fit...

Erwin Schrodinger

There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general principles by which its solution must be obtaine...

George Boole

There is an open circle.” This mantra is what my high school coaches would say to me during wrestling practice when they knew that I was physically exhausted and was about to rest for a moment. There was an open circle on the wrestling mat, and if ...

JohnA Passaro

Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.

A Clockwork Orange

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

The Darkest Night

Friendship is the underlying element, the common denominator of every relationship.

Friends With Benefits: Rethinking Friendship, Dating & Violence

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Heart of Darkness

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.

bell hooks

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

1Q84

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: "Loneliness is a type of violence.

Hiding Out

People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

Innocent Blood

There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

Jitterbug Perfume

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence. -General Wedge Antilles

Starfighters of Adumar

For once, let us practise intolerance......against violence!!

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core