Phases Quotes
400 quotes by 371 authors
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Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight…
— Robert Winston
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must…
— Jacob Zuma
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Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus…
— Martin Filler
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Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural…
— Martin Filler
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You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact…
— Charles Jencks
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Sleephackers go to bed with sensors on their wrists and foreheads and maintain detailed electronic sleep diaries, which they often share online. To shift between…
— Evgeny Morozov
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Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
— John Irving
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She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at…
— John Irving
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We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills…
— Naomi Wolf
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a…
— Winston Churchill
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Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition…
— Karl Rahner
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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as…
— Douglas Adams
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have…
— Gerard Way
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Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that…
— Michael Crichton
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Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small…
— Leonard Cohen
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There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing,…
— George Saunders
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Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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