Assembled Quotes

“Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality. ( "Man without Qualities" )”

“The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms first assembled in the cores of long-dead stars. Atoms within you, everywhere, disintegrating in radioactive decays. Beneath your feet, the floor - whose electrons refuse to let yours pass, thus making you able to stand and walk and run. Earth, your planet, a lump of matter made out of the three quantum fields known to mankind, held together by gravity, the so-called fourth force (even though it isn't a force), floating within and through spacetime.”

“Jesus, Made in Heaven, assembled on earth.”

“What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!”

“The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!”

“Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time.”

“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”

“A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.”

“Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.)”