Inserted Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the…
— John Berger
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for…
— Saint Augustine
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.
— Nas
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp…
— Annie Dillard
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent,…
— Edward Abbey
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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a…
— Sigmund Freud
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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a…
— Alexander Cockburn
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Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
— Joseph O'Neill
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My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them…
— Natalie Gulbis
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Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context…
— Susan Sontag
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An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just…
— Miranda July
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Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I…
— James Keller
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I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.
— Andy Couturier
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When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.
— Reince Priebus
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The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
— Claudio Hummes
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Who Wrote These Inserted Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Inserted Quotes, led by these top contributors: