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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
«These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little sawdust Caesars only find courage like rats, by hunting in packs.»
«Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.»
«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
«As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.»
Author: Arthur C. Clarke (Writer) | About: Mankind | Keywords: destroying, proving, unstable
«If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.»
Author: Herodotus | About: Dogs | Keywords: insisted, relaxation, unstable
«Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton | About: Honor | Keywords: feeds, fickle, unstable
«To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
«The consciousness of the wicked, faithless cynics wanders around in search of transitory wealth, unstable and distracted. Searching outside of themselves, they are ruined; the object of their search is in that sacred place within the home of the heart.»