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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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)
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)
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.
There can be no danger in sweetness and youth Where love is secured by good nature and truth, On her beauty I'll gaze, and of pleasure complain, While every kind look adds a link to my chain.
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of— 'The Submission', l.13-16 (published1680).
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
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.
Milan Kundera— As quoted in The Canine Hiker's Bible (2000) by Doug Gelbert, p. 8
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
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Or, a chain is no stronger than its weakest link
— "A weak part or member will affect the success or effectiveness of the whole."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 38. Retrieved on 31 July 2013.
— Cf. Thomas Reid Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, 1786, Vol. II, p.377, Essay VII, Of Reasoning, and of Demonstration, ch. 1: "In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of this chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest."
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.
Woodrow Wilson— From a letter to Mary A. Hulbert (21 September 1913)
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
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.
madeleine l'engle— Section 1.16
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
herbert marcuse— p. 147 (One-Dimensional Man (1964))
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.
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”
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 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.
Oh, had I but Aladdin's lamp Tho' only for a day, I'd try to find a link to bind The joys that pass away.
— Charles Swain, Oh, Had I but Aladdin's Lamp.
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.
