Quotes about verb

Variant: Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You do not have to have a college degree to serve. You do not have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Ch. 22

Pt II, p. 162
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

A Sea Dirge
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

What is Life? (1995)

Source: Choice Theory (1997), p. 75

Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 100
Context: When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects … Love is the answer, we sing. … our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic — albeit desperate — conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

Conversations with History interview (1999)
Context: The verb "heal" must be used actively. I heal myself. A human being is healed by something. That is a very positive deed of human beings. When I listen to the music of my son, I don't experience any passive deed. I feel I am doing something positive with my son. We are looking out at the same direction. So if someone feels he is healed by the music of my son, even then I believe someone is looking in the same direction as my son. So he is positively healing himself with my son.

Comments at an Obama Foundation event, Chicago (29 October 2019), as quoted in &quot;Obama Calls Out Online Call-Out Culture: &#x27;That’s Not Activism&quot;&quot;, Rolling Stone (30 October 2019) https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/obama-calls-out-call-out-culture-not-activism-905600/ <br class="br">2019

Source: The Indigo Spell

Source: Anger: Aim It in the Right Direction

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

The Sportswriter

Source: Something Blue

Source: Charlie All Night

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Solar Anus (1927)

Source: Issola

Source: Cold Mountain

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Source: House Rules

Source: Love the One You're With

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 33-43 as cited in: Militiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani (2011) Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness. p. 111

Grady Booch (2006) &quot; On design https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/gradybooch/entry/on_design?lang=en&quot; cited in: Frank Buschmann, ‎Kevlin Henney, ‎Douglas C. Schmidt (2007) Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, On Patterns and Pattern Languages. p. 214

Source: Systems Thinking, Systems Practice, 1981, p. 223 as cited in: Gillian Ragsdell, Daune West, Jennifer Wilby (2002) Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age. p. 82. In the original quote Checkland summarised his earlier work with Smyth published in 1976.

Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)

http://www.zefrank.com/wiki/index.php/the_show:_06-15-06
"The Show" (www.zefrank.com/theshow/)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)

Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 5

Jones' third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society on the history and culture of the Hindus (delivered on 2 February 1786 and published in 1788)

Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 2, Ceremonies of Innocence, p. 58

Dialogues on enlightenment and reason (2013)

Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 37.

Source: Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977), p. 16.

Pt. II, Bk. III, ch. 1.
1830s, The French Revolution. A History (1837)

Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)

Introduction : Woman as Other
The Second Sex (1949)

Acceptance speech on receiving the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1989, as quoted in "Gregory Peck, a Star of Quiet Dignity, Dies at 87" by William Grimes in The New York Times (13 June 2003)

Giorgio Agamben, &quot;What is a commandment?&quot; http://bat020.com/2011/03/30/giorgio-agamben-what-is-a-commandment/ March 28, 2011

endorsing Barack Obama, Telegraph Column, October 21, 2008
2000s, 2008

Prof. George Cardona in:"Indo-Aryan languages".

Quotes from acting

Source: Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986), p. 14

The Daily Show (2004-3-24), &quot;Back in Black,&quot; regarding H.R. 3687 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h108-3687, intended to expand the definition of &quot;profane broadcasts.&quot;

An Analytical Study of 'Sanskrit' and 'Panini' as Foundation of Speech Communication in India and the World

Interview http://www.inch.com/~ari/levi1.html with Daniel Toaff, Sorgenti di Vita (Springs of Life), a program on the Unione Comunita Israelitiche Italiane, Radiotelevisione Italiana [RAI] (25 March 1983); translated by Mirto Stone

Source: 1960s, Scientific method: optimizing applied research decisions, 1962, p. 108 as cited in: Charles West Churchman, Richard O. Mason (1976) World modeling: a dialogue. p. 23.

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 41

United States of Banana (2011)

The Integrity of the Intellect (July 1920)

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

Whorf (1937) "Grammer categories" in: Language, (1945) Vol 21. p. 1-11.

Recited on Newsnight with Kirsty Wark, December 22, 2004
Lyrics and poetry

The Blackfoot Physics (2006)

No More Secondhand God (1963)
1960s

Taxed Beyond Belief (2002)

LoserPalooza
Bucky Katt

Appendix A History of Sanskrit Literature

Epigrams on Programming, 1982

"Recursive Structures and Processes"
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (1979)

as quoted in &quot;It is&quot;, No.4, Autumn, 1959 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79463183&amp;referer=brief_results Magazine for Abstract Art, Second Half Publishing Co., New York pp. 29,30 <br class="br">1950 - 1971

2010s, 2011

"Prometheus", pp. 208-9.
Unlikely Stories, Mostly (1983)

I Seem to Be a Verb (1970)
1970s

Source: Language, thought and reality (1956), p. 61.

Democratic primary debate (October 30, 2007)
2000s

Page 143
The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

Source: 1980s and later, Thought and Wisdom (1982), p. 19; cited in Werner Ulrich (1998) '" C. West Churchman-75 years". in: Systems practice. December 1988, Volume 1, Issue 4, pp 341-350

"The Jelly-Bean"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

Os Brâmanes, p. 474
Os Brâmanes (1866)

Cited in: Rex Robert Dolan (1967). The big change: the challenge to radical change in the Church.
Source: The step to man, 1966, p.178.

Dune Genesis (1980)

&quot;Gurdjieff&quot; in Man, Myth and Magic : Encyclopedia of the Supernatural (1970) http://www.gurdjieff.org/travers1.htm <br class="br">Context: It is clear from Gurdjieff&#x27;s writings that hypnotism, mesmerism and various arcane methods of expanding consciousness must have played a large part in the studies of the Seekers of Truth. None of these processes, however, is to be thought of as having any bearing on what is called Black Magic, which, according to Gurdjieff, &quot;has always one definite characteristic. It is the tendency to use people for some, even the best of aims, without their knowledge and understanding, either by producing in them faith and infatuation or by acting upon them through fear. There is, in fact, neither red, green nor yellow magic. There is &quot;doing.&quot; Only &quot;doing&quot; is magic.&quot; Properly to realise the scale of what Gurdjieff meant by magic, one has to remember his continually repeated aphorism, &quot;Only he who can be can do,&quot; and its corollary that, lacking this fundamental verb, nothing is &quot;done,&quot; things simply &quot;happen.&quot;

Source: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 1999, p. 33-43 as cited in: Militiadis Lytras, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos, Ernesto Damiani (2011) Semantic Web Personalization and Context Awareness. p. 111

Journals A 126 (March 1836)
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states). How many people are just adjectives, interjections, conjunctions, adverbs? How few are substantives, active verbs, how many are copulas? Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

The Clerk's Vision (1949)
Context: No use going out or staying at home. No use erecting walls against the impalpable. A mouth will extinguish all the fires, a doubt will root up all the decisions. It will be everywhere without being anywhere. It will blur all the. mirrors. Penetrating walls and convictions, vestments and well-tempered souls, it will install itself in the marrow of everyone. Whistling between body and body, crouching between soul and soul. And all the wounds will open because, with expert and delicate, although somewhat cold, hands, it will irritate sores and pimples, will burst pustules and swellings and dig into the old, badly healed wounds. Oh fountain of blood, forever inexhaustible! Life will be a knife, a gray and agile and cutting and exact and arbitrary blade that falls and slashes and divides. To crack, to claw, to quarter, the verbs that move with giant steps against us!
It is not the sword that shines in the confusion of what will be. It is not the saber, but fear and the whip. I speak of what is already among us. Everywhere there are trembling and whispers, insinuations and murmurs. Everywhere the light wind blows, the breeze that provokes the immense Whiplash each time it unwinds in the air. Already many carry the purple insignia in their flesh. The light wind rises from the meadows of the past, and hurries closer to our time.

In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: CREB's opposing regulatory actions provide a threshold for memory storage, presumably to ensure that only important, life-serving experiences are learned. Repeated shocks to the tail are a significant learning experience for an Aplysia, just as, say, practicing the piano or conjugating French verbs are to us: practice makes perfect, repetition is necessary for long-term memory. In principle, however, a highly emotional state... could bypass the normal restraints on long-term memory. In such a situation, enough MAP kinase molecules would be sent into the nucleus rapidly enough to inactivate all of the CREB-2 molecules, thereby making it easy for protein kinase A to activate CREB-1 and put the experience directly into long-term memory.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)
Context: The impending loss of spirit, of soul, of what I call atmosphere, could go unnoticed.
Only persons who face one another in trust can allow its emergence. The bouquet of friendship varies with each breath, but when it is there it needs no name. For a long time I believed that there was no one noun for it, and no verb for its creation. Each time I tried one, I was discouraged; all the synonyms for it were shanghaied by its synthetic counterfeits: mass-produced fashions and cleverly marketed moods, chic feelings, swank highs and trendy tastes. Starting in the seventies, group dynamics retreats and psychic training, all to generate "atmosphere," became major businesses. Discreet silence about the issue I am raising seemed preferable to creating a misunderstanding.
Then… I suddenly realized that there is indeed a very simple word that says what I cherished and tried to nourish, and that word is peace. Peace, however, not in any of the many ways its cognates are used all over the world, but peace in its post-classical, European meaning. Peace, in this sense, is the one strong word with which the atmosphere of friendship created among equals has been appropriately named. But to embrace this, one has to come to understand the origin of this peace in the conspirator, a curious ritual behavior almost forgotten today.

1960s, Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool (1967)
Context: This man was a fool because he failed to realize his dependence on God... this man-centered foolishness is still alive today. In fact, it has gotten to the point today that some are even saying that God is dead. The thing that bothers me about it is that they didn't give me full information, because at least I would have wanted to attend God's funeral. And today I want to ask, who was the coroner that pronounced Him dead? I want to raise a question, how long had He been sick? I want to know whether He had a heart attack or died of chronic cancer. These questions haven't been answered for me, and I'm going on believing and knowing that God is alive. You see, as long as love is around, God is alive. As long as justice is around, God is alive. There are certain conceptions of God that needed to die, but not God. You see, God is the supreme noun of life; He's not an adjective. He is the supreme subject of life; He's not a verb. He's the supreme independent clause; He's not a dependent clause. Everything else is dependent on Him, but He is dependent on nothing.

Book I, Chapter 2, p. 51
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
Context: It is not always obvious that metaphor has played this all-important function. But this is because the concrete metaphiers become hidden in phonemic change, leaving the words to exist on their own. Even such an unmetaphorical-sounding word as the verb 'to be' was generated from a metaphor. It comes from the Sanskrit bhu, “to grow, or make grow,” while the English forms 'am' and 'is' have evolved from the same root as the Sanskrit asmi, “to breathe.” It is something of a lovely surprise that the irregular conjugation of our most nondescript verb is thus a record of a time when man had no independent word for 'existence' and could only say that something 'grows' or that it “breathes.”

Comments at the centennial celebration of the Lincoln-Douglas debates; Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, Oct. 7, 1958. Quoted in Herbert Mitgang, "Again—Lincoln v. Douglas", The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 19, 1958, pp. 26-27.
Context: The United States is, not are. The Civil War was fought over a verb. Orval Faubus don't know that. But he gonna know, he gonna know.

Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1991)