Quotes About Internal

I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

David Cameron should be focusing on what is in Britain's national interest and our place in the world, not on internal party politics.

National security, both internal and external, is a challenge.

The most intense wars are civil wars, just as the most vivid and rending personal conflicts are internal ones, and what I hope to do now is give some idea of what it is like to fight on two fronts at once, to try and keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind, even occasionally to show two faces at the same time.

The mindless voters of this country are wrong to worry about the dangers of the CIA's internal corruption. When they bring this nation to disaster, it won't be through their villainy; it will be because of their bungling.

She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.

Staten blev till härskare, det till formen nationella övergick till att bli innehåll och väsen, det socialistiska jagades undan till att bli ett hölje, en fraseologi, ett skal, yttre form.

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion;

The disagreements dividing Protestants from Catholics were about the internal consistency of the magical rules within their common fantasy scheme.

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.

I won't feel. . . But that was impossible. She couldn't help feeling.

Oh! think not that my eyes are dry, Because you mark no falling tears: There flows a river deep and dark, Whose waters ebb not with the years.

but pain is a private business

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

Algunos tipos de miseria te hacen odiar el mundo, pero otros te hacen odiarte a ti misma.

she said she heard nothing, that our friend might well be screaming, but what I heard was only the memory of my own scream trapped like a wasp inside my head.

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.

Do you bleed from within?" Her face flamed, and she bit her lip. Hunter would have traded every horse he owned at that moment to have a woman there.

bruised, a battered internal condition that figuratively showed on the outside. Like someone had beaten her within an inch of her life in some ingenious way that left no marks.

There is no immediate emotional release in the literature of minor feelings. It is cumulative. Change is measured in the internal "waverings of the mind" or in shape-shifting personae.

Change is measured in the internal "waverings of the mind" or in shape-shifting personae. Because minor feelings are ongoing, they lend themselves more readily to forms and genres that are themselves serial...

The revolution that goes on in your head, nobody will ever see that.

The rules that he observes have become his way of thinking, when he is taking care; they are not external rubrics with which he has to square his thoughts.