Multidimensional Array Quotes & Sayings

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe. — Madeleine M. Kunin

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. — Susan Sontag

There is a progression from pictographic, writing the picture; to ideographic, writing the idea; and then logographic, writing the word. Chinese script began this transition between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago: signs that began as pictures came to represent meaningful units of sound. Because the basic unit was the word, thousands of distinct symbols were required. This is efficient in one way, inefficient in another. Chinese unifies an array of distinct spoken languages: people who cannot speak to one another can write to one another. It employs at least fifty thousand symbols, about six thousand commonly used and known to most literate Chinese. In swift diagrammatic strokes they encode multidimensional semantic relationships. One device is simple repetition: tree + tree + tree = forest; more abstractly, sun + moon = brightness and east + east = everywhere. The process of compounding creates surprises: grain + knife = profit; hand + eye = look. — James Gleick

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well. — Ruth Ozeki

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own. — Simon Sinek

Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me. — Kresley Cole

I was at sea the other day and loads of meat floated past. It was a bit choppy. — Tim Vine

His warm voice
tiptoes into the
quiet room. — Lisa Schroeder

Miss Maudie's hand closed tightly on mine, and I said nothing. Its warmth was enough. — Harper Lee

Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some standard and not at random; just as all other artists, whether the painter, the builder, the shipwright, or any other look all of them to their own work, and do not select and apply at random what they apply, but strive to give a definite form to it? — Plato