#shatter

To the NAR!' 'To freedom!' Jack Chimes in. Max and I pick up our mugs and click them against everyone else's without looking at each other. I'm afraid that if I do catch his eye, I'll see my own horror at what we're getting ourselves into reflected there, and that the smile on my face will drop off and shatter like glass. ↗

— Emma Pass

#shatter #freedom

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#future #individuals #induce #much #shattering

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#meaninglessness #nature-and-man #equality

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses. ↗

— Lesley Garrett

#fat #glasses #i #just #like

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. ↗

— Helen Keller

#emerge #into #light #shall #shattered

To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful. ↗

— George Santayana

#always #another #create #equally #form

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel? ↗