#ties

The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. ↗

— Dave Barry

#conduct #could #doubt #during #human

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#age #change #chief #early #enforce

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#image #makes #mind #stop #uncertainties

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#attributes #comes #elation #halo #her

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#float #formless #intangible #interpreters #lack

I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. ↗

— Alan Bates

#always #believed #confront #different #different personalities

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#beauties #best #both #companion #country

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

#chances #give #many #opportunities #second

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#because #between #conceivably #counting #discontinuity

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#energy #explain #explanations #genesis #i