Tetanizes Quotes & Sayings

There is a time when death is an event, an ad-venture, and as such mobilizes, interests, activates, tetanizes. And then one day it is no longer an event, it is another duration, compressed, insignificant, not narrated, grim, without recourse: true mourning not susceptible to any narrative dialectic. — Roland Barthes

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy. — Gerry Mulligan

What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste. — Jaggi Vasudev

The mind is a wonder and can accomplish many things. But it cannot accomplish the impossible. That is a thing only the heart can do. — Cameron Dokey

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor. — Denis Leary

We carry nemesis inside us. — Robert Stone

Because when your world has fallen apart around you, it is your friends, your family, that keep you from slipping between the broken crevices. — Eden Butler

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept. — Mark Zuckerberg

Everyone became brave from excess of terror. — Gustave Flaubert

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust. — James Cash Penney

This axiom of Aristotelian logic has so deeply imbued our habits of thought that it is felt to be "natural" and self-evident, while on the other hand the statement that X is A and not A seems to be nonsensical. (Of course, the statement refers to the subject X at a given time, not to X now and X later, or one aspect of X as against another aspect.) — Erich Fromm

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American. — Barack Obama

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Man is the ultimate tragic being, because he has learned enough about the Earth to realise the Earth would be better off without the presence of humankind. — Peter Wessel Zapffe