"We try to abolish intervals by our manic……" — Lyall Watson
"We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between."
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19 Quotes by Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson has 19 quotes on this site.
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If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel…
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Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or…
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If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they…
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I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #…
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The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some…
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
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Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward…
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It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in…
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All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
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Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a…
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Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense…
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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More Abolish Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
— Brigitte Bardot
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.
— Tony Campolo
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All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing.
— Elinor Glyn
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If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man…
— James Madison
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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
— Bertrand Russell
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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