All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.
Asking someone to deny their own inner reality causes further rupture.
Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing.
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.
When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much ...
The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been unifor...
Her belly ruptures full of parasites, Her eyes sink back in her skull Her butchered wrists, dangle From the edge of the bathtub Her children cuddle against her Desperate for love she cannot give
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not en...
Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris: If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.
