Implode Vs Explode Quotes & Sayings

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now. — Holland Taylor

Our response to cruelty, suffering, and sorrow is to remind the world of the face of beauty, which can best restore a man's tranquility, cleanse his hear of evil, and lead him to the path of truth — Anita Amirrezvani

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. — Jack Nicholson

How much money I have is not indicative of my worth. If it was, then I would be the lesser individual on this porch. — Alessandra Torre

Sometimes when we're in love, we take the facts and spin them into pretty stories. But it's a dangerous thing to do
because one day, like it or not, you're going to see the world as it really is. You find out people aren't always who you want them to be. And if you're not ready for the truth ... well, let's just say it can come as a bit of a shock. — Kirsten Miller

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles. — Hortense Calisher

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

But on the other hand, it would be a great mistake to assume that the dead are absolutely powerless. — Ralph Ellison

To explode or to implode - said Qwfwq - that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to expand one's energies in space without restraint, or to crush them into a dense inner concentration and, by ingesting, cherish them. To steal away, to vanish; no more; to hold within oneself every gleam, every ray, deny oneself every vent, suffocating in the depths of the soul the conflicts that so idly trouble it, give them their quietus; to hide oneself, to obliterate oneself; perchance to awaken elsewhere, unchanged. — Italo Calvino

Drake complied. 'Learned that one in tech class,' he informed the occupants of the operations bay. 'Got to make sure you hit the left side only or it doesn't work.' 'What happens if you hit the right side?' Ripley asked curiously. 'You overload the internal pressure control, the one that keeps your helmet on your head.' She could see Drake smiling wolfishly into Frost's camera. 'Your eyeballs implode and your brains explode.' 'What brains?' Vasquez let out a snort. — Alan Dean Foster

All that matters is the way he's angling my face up to his, thumb and forefinger still on my jaw and my chin. It makes me think of someone taking a drink, only the drink in question is my lips. He wants to taste me there, and oh, that's exactly what it feels like.
He doesn't press his mouth to mine, too hard and too frantic. He just dips in, getting a little of me on his lips before going back for something deeper and sweeter. It's so much sweeter I could cry. I feel like I've been waiting for this for a thousand years, and, if his reaction is anything to go by, so has he. — Charlotte Stein

the best way to crush the discussion, is with a decision. — Jon Acuff

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic. — Jon Favreau

Anything is always a possibility. Wouldn't talk about what we would have done or what we would do. Everything is a possibility. — Jim Harbaugh

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable. — Allie Burke

You explode, if that's more to your taste, shoot yourself all around in endless darts, be prodigal, spendthrift, reckless: I shall implode, collapse inside the abyss of myself, towards my buried centre, infinitely. — Italo Calvino

Because if the whole universe could just explode out of Nothing and then just Be, don't you see that the opposite could also be true? That it is possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That it's possible to implode and Un-Be as well as to explode and Be? That all human beings, Napoleon Bonaparte, for example, or the emperor Akbar, or Angelina Jolie or your father, could simply return to Nothing once they're ... done? In a sort of Little, by which I mean personal, Un-Bang? — Salman Rushdie

The blood libel took possession of the popular mind most rabidly in Germany, where the well-poisoning charge too had originated in the 12th century. — Barbara W. Tuchman