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«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
| About:
Culture,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the Spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and in the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and the setting sun all overflow with beauty. The universe is its temple; and those people who are alive to it can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed with it on every side.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
blades, branches, Branches of, Clouds The, depths, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, gleaming, gleams, green earth, Green Grass, haunts, heavens, hues, lift, numberless, overflow, overflows, pervade, pervaded, pervading, precious stone, rising, sea green, setting, shell, spring beauty, temple, The Clouds, The Rising, unfolds, waves
«But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tangled vines I saw her distant and tiny, like a white flame on the faint luminescent shell road. [concerning the way claudia looked]»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
| Keywords:
Claudia, concerning, faint, luminescent, shell, tangle, tangled, tangles, tangle with, The Faint, The Vines, tiny, vines
«A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell»
«He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.»
«If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
appearance, farther, kernel, kernels, likewise, nearer, shell
«APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
apostate, apostates, deems, leech, leeches, penetrated, shell
«Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
compassion, conceal, shell, shells
«Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
an explanation, beauty, call, dark, explanation, facts, form, genius, higher, high water, indeed, moon, needs, reflection, shell, shells, silver, silvering, springtime, sunlight, The Great, The Moon, water
