#hatter

though it's a shame, what's been done to people these last hundred years: men turned into nothing but labor-insects, and all their manhood taken away, and all their real life. i'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. but since i can't, an' nobody can, i'd better hold my peace, an' try an' life my own life: if i've got one to live, which i rather doubt. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#life

I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#remaining-silent #reticence #silence #talking

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#babble #chatter #clarity #confusion #content

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#blogs #chatter #even #great #great way

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter. ↗

— Guy Debord

#center #chatter #chosen #condemning #consider

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art of war #best #country #destroy #enemy

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#confidence #directing #else #entirely #i

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #american #attacks #biggest #buildings

By that point, I had started taking singing lessons. And after the first session, I mean, I was surprised that the windows didn't shatter. And after the third session, I really didn't know where this voice had come from. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#come #first #had #i #know