Bifurcations Veins Quotes & Sayings

Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has caused its arising. Once this conditioned nature of feelings is fully apprehended, detachment arises naturally and one's identification with feelings starts to dissolve. — Analayo

She understood nothing, she learned nothing, so she just stood there, lively sometimes, joyful even, a groundless joy that brought tears to their eyes, though they wished they could share these moments with her: her ecstasy over a leaf, which could last for whole minutes at a time, as though it were the most wonderful thing in the world, as though the precise bifurcations of its veins or the carefree elegance with which it swayed in the breeze was what made her clap her hands together in glee ... — Jean-Christophe Valtat

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding. — Elizabeth Smart

She was quick to anger, quick to laughter, and jolly from the depths of her soul. — Willa Cather

Machines are non living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes. — Sukant Ratnakar

Time and ka and trains. I'm thinking about them and many other things.
(Lady of Shadows: Dark Tower, The Drawing of the Three) — Stephen King

We where not put on this earth to be ordinary, we where created to be extraordinary. — Frederick Owen

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens. — Michel Faber

When gettin' off wasn't worth puttin' up with her, I ended it — Kristen Ashley

Today is a good day for war to end. — Deepak Chopra

I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one who has seen many challenges over a long lifetime, I can assure you that personal faith and conviction are strengthened, not weakened, in adversity. — Ronald Reagan