Pieces Quotes - Page 70

On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.

Take out two pieces of paper. One piece of paper, list all the people you know who are adding to your life.

Then on the other piece of paper, list all the people you know who are taking more than they're adding. Include people from the past.

The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.

I started out doing everything on a custom scale and when that started paying the bills I started making more pieces.

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

Every piece of music is not for everybody.

Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.

I think that you can't help but bring pieces of who you are. No matter what you do, it comes through you, as a vessel.

Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

Most of the places I've been, I've been a main piece of the puzzle.