"every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance."

-- Freya Stark

#Association Quotes #Silent Quotes #Significance Quotes

“I may say that here, as in most cases where the operations of nature interfere with the designs of man, it is not by a direct intervention on our part that we may remedy the difficulties, but rather by a precise knowledge of their causes, which may enable us, if not to check, at least to avoid the evil consequences.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1882). “Report on the Florida Reefs”
“Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.”
“Everything matters. Nothing's important.”
“It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken”
“Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after itâ€™s all over.”

Source : Nevil Shute (2010). “Requiem for a Wren”, p.246, Random House
“The wind has a language, I would I could learn! Sometimes 'tis soothing, and sometimes 'tis stern, Sometimes it comes like a low sweet song, And all things grow calm, as the sound floats along, And the forest is lull'd by the dreamy strain, And slumber sinks down on the wandering main, And its crystal arms are folded in rest, And the tall ship sleeps on its heaving breast.”
“People dont pay attention until they have to”
“I'm glad I was in the Navy.”

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