Workings Quotes

147 quotes by 134 authors

The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long… — Haruki Murakami
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at… — Haruki Murakami
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of… — Leon Uris
Of course genes canâ€™t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or… — W. Somerset Maugham
The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent,… — Michel Foucault
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with… — Elizabeth Gilbert
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one… — Marilynne Robinson
Popularity was fickle and elusive, like trying to catch fireflies in a jar. You were either born with it or relegated to wallflower status according… — Melissa de la Cruz
I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the… — Brandon Sanderson
I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is… — Veronica Roth
Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle… — Dallas Willard
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain… — Haruki Murakami
I cannot prove that gods do not exist. Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity… — Christopher Paolini
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't… — Jonathan Stroud
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing thatâ€™s all that you really are.… — Louisa May Alcott
The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the… — Philip Sington

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