...pleasure lies in pursuit, not in the attainment. It is because of this, that society is never satisfied, and, however, wearied,... is always on the race-track, straining every nerve to reach the goal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American people is out to get the kaiser. We are bending every nerve and every energy towards that end; anybody who gets in th...e way of the great machine the energy and devotion of a hundred million patriots is building towards the stainless purpose of saving civilization from the Huns will be mashed like a fly. I'm surprised that a collegebred man like you hasn't more sense. Don't monkey with the buzzsaw.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague.... One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it a fact--or have I dreamt it--that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousand...s of miles in a breathless point of time?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them.... Smug in our certain awareness that ... communal life must be more difficult even than nuclear family life, which we know, to our very nerve endings, is disastrous, we condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money- bitten, frightened, adult lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seemed there was a sort of poisoning, an auto-infection of the organisms, so Dr. Krokowski said; it was caused by the disintegr...ation of a substance ... and the products of this disintegration operated like an intoxicant upon the nerve-centres of the spinal cord, with an effect similar to that of certain poisons, such as morphia, or cocaine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taki...ng a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the aquarium tending a seal,... one is dull at the wheel of her Ford, one is at the toll gate collecting, one is tying the cord of a calf in Arizona, one is straddling a cello in Russia....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »