Quotes About Cracks

marriage is the encounter of two egoisms that grind each other reciprocally and from which spread the cracks in the foundations of civilized society, the pillars of public welfare stand on the viper's eggshells of private barbarity.

the strangest life exists in the cracks

Some cracks let the light in. Some let the darkness out.

Trust is like a mirror. You can fix it if it's broken, but you can see the cracks in its reflection.

I can see the cracks in society, in people, in this world and I'd rather die before slipping into one of them.

Where human life is concerned, it is clearly desirable that a 'safe' crack should be long enough to be visible to a bored and rather stupid inspector working in a bad light on a Friday afternoon.

Geometrical irregularities, such as holes and cracks and sharp corners, which had previously been ignored, may raise the local stress ? often only over a very small area ? very dramatically indeed.

There was something in the moonlight tonight. It was stroking the stonework and spires, leaning into cracks between the cobblestones, caressing the stained-glass windows. She felt her heart lift with magic.

hydrofracking" (often just "fracking")." In a nutshell, hydrofracking (or "induced hydraulic fracturing") is the process of injecting highly pressurized, chemical-laced fluid into a rock layer far below the surface of the earth in order to make cracks in it, and then to use the cracks to get to fossil fuels that you couldn't get to before because they were so deeply buried.

However, by 1990, at the latest, the Clausewitzian framework was beginning to show serious cracks. As has just been said, it proved incapable of incorporating warfare by, or against, non-state actors.

The cracks of reality are the cracks of the insight of the mind.

in repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks - a bond stronger than mere possession.

Perhaps I didn't voice my unhappiness soon enough; rather, I spent more time feeling like a disappointment and scrambling to patch our cracks than I did considering whether he required an unreasonable level of tending.

Something in me that was broken, cracked—becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.

Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.

Out in the yard, the glow from several hurricane lamps rinsed out through the cracks in the stable door. High overhead, ribbons of stars swirled like milk, and a sickle moon lay hard and bright on its side. The night insects seethed away in the forest and

They could hear again the gathering whispers, the swooshes and squeals, the cracks, almost as if the fire were questioning its own intentions and the woods were answering: 'We have been waiting for you our whole lives.