Knots Quotes - Page 10

• But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Baby, Taken, Hands

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• ‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

  Terence McKenna

  Wisdom, Moving, Inward

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• La gente siempre tiende a identificar, instintivamente, la libertad con el abandono. Pero el tipo de abandono que busca la gratificación personal siempre te "ata en un nudo". Abandona, en cambio, tus miedos y deseos personales... y tú, el verdadero tú, te liberarás, te liberarás de las ataduras de tu propia mente.

  Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

  Real, Gente, Mente

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• El cuchillo es la más permanente, la más inmortal, la más ingeniosa de las creaciones del hombre. El cuchillo era una guillotina; el cuchillo es un medio universal para resolver todos los nudos.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Media, Ciencia, Hombres

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). "Nosotros: Nueva edición", p.107, Penguin

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• A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

  Thornton Wilder

  Men, Good Woman, Way

  Thornton Wilder (1965). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• El amor es autorrealización. El amor es liberación. El único camino más allá del tiempo, para desenredar el nudo de la existencia, es amar.

  Federico Lenz

  Felicidad, Budismo, El amor es

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• ¿Cómo desenredar el nudo de la realidad? Lenta y pacientemente. No se puede huir de ella. No puedes correr hacia ella. Sin embargo, la verdad corre tras tus pasos. Es el rostro en el espejo, la luz del sol, los aguaceros de invierno, el calor del verano en la ciudad

  Federico Lenz

  Inspiración, Verano, Correr

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• I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the story--readers see an unknotting of sorts. Not what you expect, not the easy answers you get on TV, not wash and wear philosophies, but a reproduction of believable, emotional experiences.

  Terry McMillan

  Philosophy, Character, Emotional

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• Era algo que mantendría oculto en su interior, quizá en lugar del nudo de dolor y rabia que llevaba bajo el esternón... una manta de seguridad, un as en la manga. Puede que nunca lo usara, pero siempre sentiría su presencia como una piedra secreta hinchada, y así, cuando soltara la rabia, no se sentiría tan vacía.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heartbreak, Letting Go, Pain

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• To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold.

  Zadie Smith

  Keys, Novelists, Fluidity

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

  William Gibson

  Ducks, Faces

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• Close your mouth,
  block off your senses,
  blunt your sharpness,
  untie your knots,
  soften your glare,
  settle your dust.
  This is the primal identity.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Tao Te Ching

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• I'm a child of the downloading age. I remember when I was 10, a friend who went to the same school as me came to our [school's] costume party with a really weird hairdo. She had all these little knots in her hair. I asked her who she was and she said she was Björk. I thought this Björk must be a really cool person, so I got on the internet when I got home and found as much as I could on Björk and I fell in love.

  Tove Styrke

  Children, Party, School

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.

  Ian Mckellen

  New York, Men, Past

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?

  Richard Dooling

  Experts, Machines, Use

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• I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Pena, sufrimiento, dolor

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• Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

  Omar Khayyam

  Fate, Rose, Thrones

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

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• I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

  Derechos de autor: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Sociedad Limitada Familiar.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Powerful, Artist, Want

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• And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.

  Kami García

  Uncles, Links, Firsts

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• No hay gente que se levanta por la mañana y dice: "¿Qué cosas malvadas puedo hacer hoy, porque soy el Sr. Maldad?". La gente hace cosas por lo que cree que son razones justificadas. Todo el mundo es el héroe de su propia historia, y eso hay que tenerlo en cuenta. Si lees mucha historia, como hago yo, incluso las peores y más monstruosas personas pensaban que eran los buenos. Todos somos nudos muy enredados.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mañana, Héroe, Pensamiento

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• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mañana, Niños, Flor

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• Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a opponent, not a quirk of size or style. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accept them, and put them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots. His body quickly follows.

  Ken Dryden

  Hurt, Stress, Mean

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• Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. Reserve your hotel rooms now. I will be having a gay marriage.

  Ben Affleck

  Funny, New Year, Gay

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• Do you sometimes wish you could fast-forward a week? You know something bad's coming up, and you know you'll get through it, but the prospect just makes you feel sick. I worried for about thirty minutes, and though I knew there was no point in doing so, I could feel my anxiety twisting me up in a knot. 'Bullshit,' I told myself stoutly. 'This is utter bullshit.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sick, Bullshit, Anxiety

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• ¿Tu color favorito... es el verde?" "Así es". Entonces se me ocurre algo que añadir. "Y el tuyo es el naranja". "¿Naranja?" No parece convencido. "No naranja brillante. Pero suave. Como la puesta de sol", le digo. "Al menos, eso me dijiste una vez". "Oh." Cierra los ojos brevemente, quizá intentando evocar esa puesta de sol, y luego asiente con la cabeza. "Gracias. Pero se le escapan más palabras. "Eres pintor. Eres panadero. Te gusta dormir con las ventanas abiertas. Nunca tomas azúcar en el té. Y siempre te anudas dos veces los cordones de los zapatos.

  Suzanne Collins

  Atardecer, Sueño, Ojo

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