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Quotes About Emergence

I was doing exactly the same thing as Aislinn: getting lost so deep inside the story in my head, I couldn't see past its walls to the outside world. I feel those walls shift and start to waver, with a rumble that shakes my bones from the inside out. I feel my face naked to the ice-flavored air that pours through the cracks and keeps coming. A great shiver is building in my back.
~ Tana French
Se redressant, elle se sentit possédée par quelque chose d'insolite. De tréfonds d'elle-même,comme d'une source profonde,elle poussa un cri, un unique cri, le seul qui put jaillir.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
~ Anton Chekhov
They are very intelligent," she agreed, with a glance toward the window that made it somewhat ambiguous. "Anyway, that's how they—pigs—got domesticated. We have genetic data on many domesticated breeds, of course. Getting data on the Eurasian wild boar is harder, but we have plenty of that too. That's the source material. Where it gets fun is seeing all the combinations that emerge among the several million wild pigs running around Texas.
~ Neal Stephenson
These early, single-celled organisms unwittingly transformed Earth's carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into one with sufficient oxygen to allow aerobic organisms to emerge and dominate the oceans and land.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
A PRINCE, therefore, should have no care or thought but for war, and for the regulations and training it requires, and should apply himself exclusively to this as his peculiar province; for war is the sole art looked for in one who rules, and is of such efficacy that it not merely maintains those who are born Princes, but often enables men to rise to that eminence from a private station;
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Porque así como aquellos que dibujan se colocan abajo, en el llano, para considerar la naturaleza de los montes y de los lugares elevados y, para considerar la de los bajos, se colocan en lo alto, sobre los montes, igualmente para conocer bien la naturaleza de los pueblos, es necesario ser príncipe, y para conocer bien la de los príncipes, es necesario ser del pueblo.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness.
~ Nicholas Sparks
AI cloud is just very, very nascent.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Trump and today's Republican Party represent the last stage in the emergence of corporate totalitarianism.
~ Chris Hedges
As in Japan, therefore, Korea's tech companies emerged not from garages, but from massive conglomerates with access to cheap bank loans and government support.
~ Chris Miller
One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind- altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol.
~ Chris Prentiss
It was as crude as his drafts always were. But it accomplished the enormous feat of making this shapeless blob of potential material emerge 'out of the everywhere into here.
~ Christopher Isherwood
It's as if Joshua springs forth full grown from the head of Zeus. (Okay, bad metaphor, but you know what I mean.)
~ Christopher Moore
Later, the stone cracks open and a baby dragon emerges. When Eragon touches her, a silvery mark appears on his palm, and an irrevocable bond is forged between their minds, making Eragon one of the legendary Dragon Riders. He names the dragon Saphira, after a dragon mentioned by the village storyteller, Brom.
~ Christopher Paolini
Steven Johnson's Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software.
~ Verne Harnish
You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of heaven. It was necessary to begin there.
~ Victor Hugo
And then the swelling thing burst. There was, to Damon, a palpable if not audible crack as the stone encasing his soul burst open and a great piece fell away.
~ L.J. Smith
To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.
~ Laini Taylor
When I emerged, there was a boy standing behind me, staring at me. Not just any boy, either. The one who'd returned my lost hat at the lake the other day. The cute one with short auburn hair and green eyes. The one I'd fallen on top of. They were coming out of the woodwork. Or the ice. Or somewhere. He was wearing an apron with the store's name stitched over the pocket. Unless his name was Zublansky's, Your One-Stop Shop.
~ Catherine Clark
All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.
~ Catherine Gaskin
Sometimes I am a cicada, hissing and singing in the leaves of a tree by the sunlit water, thoughtless and wordless, a voice that is all consonants and tribal clicks. Sometimes I rub my legs together like a string bass, and the lake quivers
~ Catherynne M. Valente
After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
At that moment a short, broad figure emerged from the house, looking absurdly like a giant panda dressed in a butler's black suit with a white shirt and black tie. Its round panda face had a spotlight for a nose, two eye lenses, large ears, and a speaker for a mouth.
~ Gerard K. O'Neill