Quotes About Crystallization

#1. These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.

Anais Nin

#2. The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens' vision are esthetically often a virtue.

Berenice Abbott

#3. I must note here that even among us the process of the hardening, the crystallization of life has evidently not been completed; there are still some steps to be ascended before we reach the ideal. The ideal (clearly) is the condition where nothing happens any more.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Karl Marx

#5. All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

Louis MacNeice

#6. Most adults suffer from difficulties in achieving the truth, because social and educational conditionings have blocked the mind from accessing it. In psychology, this process is called crystallization, and explains the inability to change over the years.

Daniel Marques

#7. Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#8. Music is the crystallization of sound.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. The normal present connects the past and the future through limitation. Contiguity results, crystallization by means of solidification. There also exists, however, a spiritual present that identifies past and future through dissolution, and this mixture is the element, the atmosphere of the poet.

Novalis

#10. The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.

Gaston Bachelard

#11. I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Stendhal

#12. There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike

#13. Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Marie Curie

#14. Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.

Oscar Romero

#15. Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place.

Doris Lessing

#16. We're trying to infuse a little good into the American culture. Love God, love your neighbor, hunt ducks. Raise your kids, make them behave, love them. I don't see the down side to that.

Phil Robertson

#17. It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

Jennifer Armintrout

#18. Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,
at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

Thomas Carlyle

#19. That is the only relation in life that is not subject to the law of change.

Henrik Ibsen

#20. Being human in a world with no tolerance for humanity felt like a setup, a game I couldn't win. But instead of understanding that there might be something wrong with the world, I decided there was something wrong with me.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#21. Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.

Miranda Kerr