Metz Quotes & Sayings

How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked.
I looked at her not knowing how to reply.
Mama, [ ... ] how do we know that things are real?'
Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house.
Well, we don't know. We just have to hope that what we think is real is real.'
But how do we know?' she asked, insistently.
Ah, a scientist, who wants empirical evidence.
We don't know. We just have to hope.'
Mama, how do we know things aren't a dream? You know, how sometimes life feels like a dream? Do you ever feel that way?'
Yes, sweetie, I feel that way all the time. — Julie Metz

The shortest definition of religion: interruption. — Johann Baptist Metz

At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying. — Julie Metz

I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter. — Julie Metz

I am no fan of plane travel. I have always been too skeptical of the physics of the phenomenon to ever be truly comfortable in an airplane. — Julie Metz

If lack of a feature will force you out of business today it doesn't matter how much it will cost to deal with the code tomorrow; you — Sandi Metz

I'm thinking we need a plan ... I'm thinking it should involve running. — Melinda Metz

Agile processes guarantee change and your ability to make these changes depends on your application's design. — Sandi Metz

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty. — Julie Metz

depend on things that change less often than you do. — Sandi Metz

I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured by the click of the shutter. — Christian Metz

Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change. — Christian Metz

When the future cost of doing nothing is the same as the current cost, postpone the decision. Make the decision only when you must with the information you have at that time. — Sandi Metz

Bavarian beer to destroy the sympathy of the United States with the French Republic. METZ, October 12. - While examining — Various

Film is difficult to explain because it is easy to understand. — Christian Metz

In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation. — Johann Baptist Metz

Somehow she could always think better when all her hair was out of her face. Stupid, but true. — Melinda Metz

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death. — Johann Baptist Metz

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering." — Johann Baptist Metz

Objection!" Metz shouts. Grounds?" the judge asks. Well ... he's my witness! — Jodi Picoult

The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it. — Christian Metz

We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether. — Lance Armstrong

Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career. — Sandi Metz

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering. — Johann Baptist Metz

Okay, he hadn't exactly been happy. But welcome to the club, right? He had eyes. He could see auras, those swirls of color that surrounded all living things, as unique as fingerprints. And those auras told him there were a lot of people out there who weren't quite happy or exactly miserable. And they were all getting along okay. — Melinda Metz

She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life. — Julie Metz

verb swon to swear, derivative of swannee I swan, raising kids is like being pecked to death by a chicken — Amy Metz

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage. — Julie Metz

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own. — Johann Baptist Metz

Forgiveness is a wonderful thing, the only truth that saves us from eating ourselves alive and causing damage to everyone we love. I continue to work on forgiveness. I do, not, however wish to forget any of this. — Julie Metz

There is a poverty of the average human's life, who is unnoticed by the world. It is the poverty of the commonplace. There is nothing heroic about it; it is the poverty of the common lot, devoid of ecstasy. Jesus was poor in this way. He was no model figure for humanists, no great artist or statesman, no diffident genius. He was a frighteningly simple man, whose only talent was to do good. The one great passion in his life was "the Father." Yet it was precisely in this way that he demonstrated "the wonder of empty hands" (Bernanos), the great potential of the person on the street, whose radical dependence on God is no different from anyone else's. He has no talent but that of his own heart, no contribution to make except self-abandonment, no consolation save God alone. — Johann Baptist Metz

Every dependency is like a little dot of glue that causes your class to stick to the things it touches. — Sandi Metz

Lavender used to be my favorite color in the box of sixty-four crayons - you know, the one with the sharpener built into the side ... It seemed like it could draw anything. It was the right color for everything. I drew lavender flowers and my father's lavender eyes, my mother's lavender smile. They were the same to me, mother, father, flowers. All good. All lavender. And I was lavender, too. — Melinda Metz

Sometimes management thinks it must determine a minimum acceptable price upfront. This is not possible when selling an intangible company. The price, the real price, is determined by the market and not by any other means. I suggest to sellers that they not worry so much about the valuation right now but rather that we go out to the market, contact all the good buyers, get offers, and negotiate the best price that we can and then accept the highest offer. People — Thomas Metz

Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow. — Sandi Metz

Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time. — Melinda Metz

Isabel wondered if there would ever be a time when she could stop being careful. If there would ever be a time when she could use other kinds of power. She missed it. It felt like part of her had been injected with novocaine and was totally numb. Almost dead (p.35). — Melinda Metz

Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart ... ? — Johann Baptist Metz

A dependency on a private method of an external framework is a form of technical debt. Avoid these dependencies. — Sandi Metz

You don't send messages because you have objects, you have objects because you send messages. — Sandi Metz

The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen. — Christian Metz

Photography is linked with death in many different ways. The most immediate and explicit is the social practice of keeping photographs in memory of loved beings who are no longer alive. But there is another real death which each of us undergoes every day, as each day we draw nearer to our own death. Even when the person photographed is still living, that moment when she or he was has forever vanished. — Christian Metz

Your application needs to work right now just once; it must be easy to change forever. — Sandi Metz

Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. — Julie Metz

Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope. — Johann Baptist Metz

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. — Christian Metz

They were roots, Michael realized. Every memory of Maria was a root she had put inside his body. Too many roots, he thought. If Michael left all that roots could come off, shattering him to pieces. There would be nothing, just small and useless parts. — Melinda Metz

The first way design fails is due to lack of it. — Sandi Metz

The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches. — Johann Baptist Metz

Conveying information that a method is stable or unstable is one thing; attempting to control how others use it is quite another. — Sandi Metz

She's like one of those Siamese cats. You know - totally self-interested, way too beautiful, way too aware of the fact, and totally willing to use it to get what she wants. — Melinda Metz

Successful (working) but undesigned applications carry the seeds of their own destruction; they are easy to write, but gradually become impossible to change. — Sandi Metz

Novice programmers don't yet have the skills to write simple code. — Sandi Metz

Metz's Perfection chronicles with lapidary precision one woman's climb back to happiness after not just a spouse's death, but also the shocking recognition that her life before that death was not what she had thought it was. The journey is a painful one, but Ms. Metz is much the stronger for having survived to recount it. — Julie Powell

Continental Baking Company, Ninth and Clinton Streets, — Holly Metz

The problem is not one of technical knowledge but of organization; you know how to write the code but not — Sandi Metz

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us. — Johann Baptist Metz

Designs that anticipate specific future requirements almost always end badly. — Sandi Metz

She was so like a sister that I forgot we'd chosen each other as friends. — Julie Metz

The general rule for refactoring into a new inheritance hierarchy is to arrange code so that you can promote abstractions rather than demote concretions. — Sandi Metz

I had hoped that the rest of the world would stand still while I got myself together again, but Chaos and Tragedy had marched into other lives close to mine as well. — Julie Metz

poetry is the tombstone of experience,
nothing i write is my own — D.W. Metz