Quotes About Adhesion

Il n'y a pas eu de jour dans ma vie, si plein et si heureux fût-il de la présence des êtres ou d'un être, et de mon adhésion riche et exubérante au monde immédiat, où je n'ai songé à la solitude, où je me sois arrangé pour lui faire la libation de quelques minutes, quand ca n'eût été que dans les cabinets, une cabine téléphonique, une salle de bains, un couloir où je m'attardais un instant plus qu'il ne convient à l'animal social.

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

There are certain natures of which the mutual influence is such, that the more they say, the more they have to say. For these out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion, amalgamation.

If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro

It is strange that the most intangible thing is the most adhesive.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher, nor suffer others to call you so. Say rather: He is in error; for my desires, my impulses are unaltered. I give in my adhesion to what I did before; nor has my mode of dealing with the things of sense undergone any change.

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Sí, la adhesión, que así en términos decorosos se llama a la ambición que espera.

No glue can make a person stick like that

For me, self-discipline has never corresponded to a voluntary adhesion to norms invented by others. It has always been the first step towards breaking the chains.

You're the glue.

The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro.

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue.

For it is essential to opinion that we assent to one of two opposite assertions with fear of the other, so that our adhesion is not firm: to science it is essential to have firm adhesion with intellectual vision, for science possesses certitude which results from the understanding of principles: while faith holds a middle place, for it surpasses opinion in so far as its adhesion is firm, but falls short of science in so far as it lacks vision.

On Earth, we'd just use glue, but here the only fluid was helium, which has lots of interesting properties, but is definitely not sticky.

The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.

The negative principle is less identity-with-self than non-difference-with-self. This absence becomes a factor only by negation of its own negation. It is less a unity of the multiple in the living than an adhesion between the elements of the multiple. In a sense, there is only the multiple, and this totality that surges from it is not a totality in potential, but the establishment of a certain dimension.

El crimen es precioso porque garantiza al gobierno la adhesión del ciudadano. ¿La patria? ¡Sálvese, general, yo sé lo que le digo; qué patria ni qué india envuelta! ¿Las leyes? ¡Buenas son tortas! ¡Sálvese, general, porque le espera la muerte!».