Link Quotes
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In every conceivable manner, the family is a link to our past, bridge to our future.
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The soliloquy of pre-Shakespearean drama was regularly addressed directly to the audience , forging a link between them and the stage .
— P.4 (Shakespeare's Soliloquies)
Whatever maydivideus,Europe is ourcommonhome. A common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
— 1981 Speech while visiting the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Nov.
Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you’re an author, you can tell whether you’re really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.
max barry— August 8, 2005 weblog post[4]
In one point of view, we, the abolitionists and colored people, should meet [the Dred Scott] decision, unlooked for and monstrous as it appears, in a cheerful spirit. This very attempt to blot out forever the hopes of an enslaved people may be one necessary link in the chain of events preparatory to the downfall and complete overthrow of the whole slave system.
frederick douglass— Speech on the Dred Scott Decision (1857)
But Alexander was stressing his link with Achilles... Achilles was also a stirring Greek hero, useful for a Macedonian king whose Greek ancestry did not stop Greeks from calling him a barbarian.
robin lane fox— p.60 (Alexander the Great)
'To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.'
elvis presley— Handwriten message on Elvis' King James -Bible
Mike Shinoda Art Show. for those of you in L.A. -- my first art show, at gallery 1988, is open to the public THIS SUNDAY at 7-10pm. i will be there hanging out. come by to get something signed and take a look at the art. for more info and location, go to gallery1988.com. for those who are not in L.A., some things will be available online after the show. i think the link will be . see you there. -m
mike shinoda— LP/FM MB 2006
The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.
theodore sturgeon— Chapter 1 “The Fabulous Idiot”, p. 1
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
martin farquhar tupper— Of Education
We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.
dick cheney— Interview with Rocky Mountain News, January 2004 [15]
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
winston churchill— Speech in the House of Commons, February 27, 1945 "Crimea Conference"; in The Second World War, Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy (1954), Chapter XXIII – Yalta: Finale.
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
alan dershowitz— Newsweek, 1978-02-20
Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 320
Memory and dust, he thought, link us to the past .
clifford d. simak— Chapter XLIII (p. 224)
“There is nearly always a chthonic link. The object-imbued-with-numinous-power tends to be of mineral origin: gold, perhaps mined from a special vein, or a jewel of extraordinary rarity, or a sword forged from a shooting star. I am merely describing pulp. But the vast popularity…attests to the power of these motifs to seize the reader’s attention, down at the level of the reptilian brain, even as the cerebrum is getting sick.”
neal stephenson— Donald Cameron, flashback to development of T'Rain, Day 2
If we pursue this plan, by late 2006 any two adjacent public CCTV terminals or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link will be reprogrammable by any authenticated MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCORPION STARE basilisk weapon. We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains.
charles stross— The Concrete Jungle (2004)
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
— From a letter to Mary A. Hulbert (21 September 1913)
A key ingredient to an enterprise architecture is the ability to link multiple and disparate systems into a coherent whole. Novell has been gradually putting together the technology that will enable it to offer enterprise LANs that are capable of supporting distributed applications running across a variety of computer Internetworking and multi- routing are essential building blocks.
— Karyl Scott (1992). "Enterprise computing: Internetwork routing enhancements planned for NetWare". In: InfoWorld?. Vol 14, nr.28, p. 96
Psychotic gunmen no longer seem to have any motive beyond a general anger. James Holmes appears to have shot dead 12 people in Colorado's Aurora cinema in July simply because they were watching a Batman film and he saw himself as the Joker. And Adam Lanza| has no link with the school he attacked last week, apart from having once attended it as a little boy.
— Tom Leonard, in "Has the Sandy Hook massacre finally made America fall out of love with guns?" in The Daily Mail (21 December 2012)
Treatises belonging to the Sangham period shed light on this. Perhaps the efforts to link Mohiniyattam to Thiruvathirakali and Nangiarkoothu were a sequel to this research.
— Nirmala Panicker in "Devoted to art."
It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind In body and in soul can bind.
walter scott— Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto V, Stanza 13.
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and the bones.
henry ward beecher— Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers. Oxford. Bodleian Library.
The idiot heard the sounds, but they had no meaning for him. He lived inside somewhere, apart, and the little link between word and significance hung broken.
— Theodore Sturgeon, in More Than Human (1953), Ch. 1 : The Fabulous Idiot, p. 1
Religious Naturalists will be known for their reverence and awe before Nature, their love for Nature and natural forms, their sympathy for all living things, their guilt for enlarging the ecological footprints, their pride in reducing them, their sense of gratitude directed towards the matrix of life, their contempt for those who abstract themselves from natural values, and their solidarity with those who link their self-esteem to sustainable living.
— Loyal Rue - Religion is not about God, Rutgers University Press, 2005, page 367, ISBN 0813535115
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
robert graves— "Mammon", an address at the London School of Economics (6 December 1963); published in Mammon and the Black Goddess (1965)
Described by The Atlantic magazine as 'The Playboy of the Internet,' Bomis provided the peer-to-peer technology to link together sites about Pamela Anderson and Anna Kournikova.
— Andrew Keen (2008). The Cult of the Amateur. Random House. pp. 41-42. ISBN 0385520816.
If we share this nightmare Then we can dream Spiritus mundi If you act as you think The missing link Synchronicity
— Sting, in "Synchronicity I", on Synchronicity (1983)
Unlike other carbons , a diamond uses all its bonding electrons to link with neighbouring atoms . These pair bonds are what give the gem unsurpassable hardness and fire .
— Olivia St. Claire, in "The Sex Devotional: 365 Days of Passion, Positions, and Pure Pleasure", p.309
Why don't they ask [Saddam's intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush] to give us something we can use to help us make our case [to link 9/11 and Saddam]?
— George W. Bush, from Ron Suskind, The Way of the World, p. 364, on Bush's frustration at the results of secret meetings between British intelligence and Saddam's intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush [by Bush, 2003]
