#merge

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#affinities #beauty #emerges #integration #love

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#characters #emerge #enjoyable #job #making

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#emergence #feel #feels #friends #hope

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#catastrophe #catastrophes #domain #embodied #emergence

The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#attorney general #congress #did #during #emerged

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#come and go #critical #emerged #energy #go

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#artists #being #emerged #great #likewise

I have likened writing a novel to going on a journey, with some notion of the destination I will arrive at, but not the whole picture - which emerges gradually as a series of revelations, as the journey goes along. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#arrive #destination #emerges #goes #going

Public emergencies may require the hand of severity to fall heavily on those who are not personally guilty, but compassion prompts, and ever urges to milder methods. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#emergencies #ever #fall #guilty #hand

We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out. It's just the food that worries me. Food and coal for the fire. We've enough for two or three days, not more. By that time...' No use thinking ahead as far as that. And they'd be giving directions on the wireless. People would be told what to do. And now, in the midst of many problems, he realised that it was dance music only coming over the air. Not Children's Hour, as it should have been. He glanced at the dial. Yes, they were on the Home Service all right. Dance records. He switched to the Light programme. He knew the reason. The usual programmes had been abandoned. This only happened at exceptional times. Elections, and such. He tried to remember if it had happened in the war... ("The Birds") ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#emergency #radio #food