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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More Link Quotes
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)
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)
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)
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.
All good poetry is forged slowlyand patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas— 1919 Collected Poems, introduction.
Man appearsto be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Konrad Lorenz— 1965 In the NewYork Times,11 Apr. King of France (1226-70). He led the Seventh Crusade (1248), but was defeated, imprisoned and ransomed. On his return to France (1254) he carried out reforms and encouraged the arts and literature. He began a new Crusade in 1270, but died of plague inTunis.
Our whole history inclines us towards the democratic powers.Our renaissance is a logical link between us and the democracies of the west.
— 1918 Inaugural address, 23 Dec.
When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.
john hall— P. 44. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Citizens of a modern society need [...] more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat. They need to be systematically aware of the powers and limitations of symbols, especially words, if they are to guard against being driven into complete bewilderment by the complexity of their semantic environment. The first of the principles governing symbols is this: The symbol is NOT the thing symbolized; the word is NOT the thing; the map is NOT the territory it stands for. (editor's link)
s. i. hayakawa— pp. 29-30
— See also: The Meaning of Meaning (1923)
— See also: Science and Sanity (1933)
Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.
janusz korwin-mikke— source: magazine Najwy?szy Czas!, 3 January 2008
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
Between the finite and the infiniteThe missing link of Love has left a void.Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will joinIn one continued chain of endless life.
ella wheeler wilcox— The Way (1913).
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
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
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)
For the importance of money essentially flows from its being a link between the present and the future.
john maynard keynes— Book 5, Chapter 21, Section 1, p. 293
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)
When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.
— John Hall, p. 44. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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
The obvious mechanical convenience of monologues in general, quite apart from link Monologues, is their availability in filling time. On the whole the link monologue is less widely employed for this purpose than the entrance monologues.
— Henry W. Prescott, in Dialogues in Roman Comedy, Chicago Journals.
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.
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, "Alexander the Great", p.60
The three traditional pillars of Lenten observance are prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The key to renewed appropriation of these practices is to see their link to baptismal renewal.
— Rev. Lawrence E. Mick, in “Lenten Customs Baptism Is the Key”
"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today..."
— "Captain Jean-Luc Picard" in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4, Episode 21 "The Drumhead".
The last link is broken That bound me to thee, And the words thou hast spoken Have render'd me free.
— Fanny Steers, Song.
Freud’s link to a Hegelian tradition with which he otherwise shares little is in the deliberate renunciation of common sense. “A person who professes to believe in commonsense psychology,” Freud is reported saying once, “and who thinks psychoanalysis is ‘far-fetched’ can certainly have no understanding of it, for it is common sense which produces all the ills we have to cure.”
— Russell Jacoby (1975) Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing. p. 19-20.
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]
The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ring leader Mohammed Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing finally that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice Presidents Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link.
— Ron Suskind, The Way of the World; p. 371 [about Bush]
The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.
Edmund Waller— Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty Escaped, line 68. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 147-148.
