Fragment Quotes

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Anais Nin
Truth Few Fragment Complete Scale Small Small Scale Instant Developments Mosaic Like Most Very Laborious Human Human Beings Staggering Them Acquire Successive Who Beings Illumination Receive
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice. Wole Soyinka
War Suffering Evil Thought Made Sacrifice Every Fragment Way Must Unavoidable More Only Purpose Individual Share Attendant Shatter Understand Buildings Does Than Human Human Suffering Foundations
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem. Bill Viola
Words Simple Sometimes Fragment Way Poem Simple Way Write Like Very Begin Might Really Works Image
It would be a tragedy if the remarkable international coalition against terrorism, successfully marshalled in the aftermath of 11 September, were to fragment over a unilateral U.S. strike against Baghdad. Charles Kennedy
Terrorism September Fragment Strike Would Would-Be Remarkable Baghdad Over Were Tragedy Aftermath Against Unilateral Successfully Coalition International
Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. Charles Stewart Parnell
Nation Fragment Geographical Ireland Should England Why Treated
Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare. Donald Johanson
Happy Rare Few Fragment Teeth Extremely Bit Find Arm Parts Isolated Normally Jaw Body Skull Associated
Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in. Heidi Hammel
You People Seen Dust Fragment Asteroid Our Atmosphere Cosmic Collision Most Comet Because Up Hits Shooting Hitting Tiny Sized Burning Star Ever
Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. Jasper Johns
Life Mind Fragment Our Small Involves Intention Consciousness
Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt. Jay Parini
Faith Looking Doubt Fragment John Distrust Some Cross Excitement True Supposedly Box Always Burial James Baptist Whether Shroud Belonging Bones
When we're awake, cortisol can fragment memories - one reason eyewitness crime scene accounts are so unreliable. But at night that very fragmentation allows creative recombinations of ideas. Jeffrey Kluger
Memories Creative Crime Fragment Fragmentation Scene Unreliable Ideas Very Accounts Reason Awake Night
I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it. Kazuo Ishiguro
You Memory Fluid Fall Fragment Mimicking Took Way Solid Scene Fact Write Writer Like Another Years Just Place Apart Then Works Actually
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life. Laurence Sterne
Life Time Man Every Fragment Every Time Adds Laughs Something More He Smiles Am Much Persuaded
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. Milan Kundera
Work Fragment Unknown Only Reveals Existence Human Being Literary Literary Work Human Existence Reason
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. Philip Levine
Saying Time Eyes Pay Pay Attention Fragment Observed Attention Come Look Transform Ordinary Commonplace Eternity Your Moment Appears Here
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Pope Paul VI
Life Work Art Me Interior Value Every Fragment Considered Rigidity Seems Facet Like Devoid Crystal Does Offer Any Human Just Meaning Human Life Regularity Deepest Hardness Exterior Luster
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value. W. S. Merwin
Democracy Value Fragment Faulty Only Thing
North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. Douglas Coupland
Fragment Easily Eastern Quickly North North America America Did

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