quotes about Mazes
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Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us
-- A.J. CroninSource : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.
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We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Natureâ€, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health.
-- B. J. Palmer -
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Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.
-- Bruce Conner -
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
-- Daniel KeyesSource : Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.138, Hachette UK
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The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.
-- Earl Warren -
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I'm sort of like a rat in a maze - I'm moving forward, and any choice I make at the time seems like the only one I can make.
-- Emile HirschSource : Source: www.timeout.com
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And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.
-- Heinrich Heine -
It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.
-- Imre LakatosSource : Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.45, Cambridge University Press
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But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.
-- Jakob Dylan -
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We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
-- Jonathan Lethem -
Sometimes it takes a partner to say, "What is it you want?" because I think we operate in life and sometimes we don't know. We're all in some kind of maze going after the cheese at the end, and we get it and we go, "What is it that we want?"
-- Kevin Costner -
. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
-- Lewis H. Lapham -
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
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As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite
-- Luke Jermay -
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A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.
-- Margaret Atwood -
Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.
-- Mickey Cohen -
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.
-- Mikhail NaimySource : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.38, Duncan Baird Publishers
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Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.
-- Robert E. Howard -
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It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation
-- Spencer Johnson -
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
-- Terry Brooks -
He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
-- William Golding -
It's a lot easier to complete a maze if you start at the end.
-- Dale Watson -
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I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.
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Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.
-- Charles MackaySource : Charles Mackay (2017). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions”, p.104, e-artnow