Tissues quotes
62 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define you character."
"Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity."
"[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action."
"That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here."
"The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos."
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"Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol."
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete"
"The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light."
"Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue."
"like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone."
"The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment."
"we know our end A packet of worm-seed, a garden of spent tissues."
"Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue."
"Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone."
"I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times."
"If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents."
"[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions."
"With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity."
"Mr. Watras asked me whether I was practicing, and I told him I was practicing my tissue basketball skills."
