#ripples

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#center #i #life #original #out

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

If one student is unable to get online, it cripples that student's team and puts the whole course in jeopardy. ↗

— John Gallagher

#cripples #get #jeopardy #online #puts

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#express #hurt #inside #only #ripples

THIS is the story of an orgasm. Or it could be said this is the story of an orgasm that never was, and then was, and once it was, it's the story of all the ripples it set in motion. It's the reiteration of the total fecundity slam dance, Big Bang Explosion that created the world. ↗

— Sharon Weil

#donny-and-ursula #donny-and-ursula-save-the-world #fecundity #orgasm #ripples

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. ↗

— Graham Greene

#coastline #dangerous #failure #more #over

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#ask #cripples #demand #else #everyone

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable. ↗

— Horace

#carvings #durable #foolish #like #quickly

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#cripples #mind #offense #regarded #should

I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#because #cause #certainly #did #equal