Plunge Quotes - Page 2

• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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• Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

  Milan Kundera

  Looks, Young

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• Pero, al final, los libros que me rodean son los libros que me han hecho, a través de mi lectura (y mala lectura) de ellos; caen en montones sobre mi escritorio, se apilan detrás de mí en mis estanterías, me sorprenden cada vez que busco uno y encuentro otros diez de los que me había olvidado. Me encantan sus portadas, su peso y su sustancia. Y como la niña que fui, con la llave del mundo que me dio la lectura, me sigue emocionando encontrar un libro nuevo, abrirlo por la primera página y zambullirme, con la cabeza por delante, el corazón por dentro.

  Ramona Koval

  Educación, Niños, Libro

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• Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

  Franz Kafka

  Love Is, Knives

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• Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife - Agnes - and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore.

  Wild Bill Hickok

  Names, Wife, Swim

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• How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.

  Anna Held

  Morning, Ice, Water

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• I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Swimming, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 31, 2014

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• Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Care, Woe

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

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• From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Long, Desire, Enjoyment

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• There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Impatient, Precipice

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.398, Broadview Press

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• It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.

  Seth Godin

  Hands, Giving, Safe

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• La máquina no aísla al hombre de los grandes problemas de la naturaleza, sino que lo sumerge más profundamente en ellos.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Nature, Science, Technology

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Be not the slave of your own past.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Slave, Sublimity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.106, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Cuando aparecieron Los Simpson, no había nada parecido en la televisión. Es difícil de imaginar, pero cuando Fox se lanzó por primera vez con ellos, se consideraba controvertido poner animación en horario de máxima audiencia.

  Matt Groening

  Firsts, Foxes, Tvs

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• No seas esclavo de tu propio pasado: sumérgete en los mares sublimes, bucea hondo y nada lejos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

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• The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

  André Breton

  Childhood, Mind, Burning

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• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Men, May

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• ¡La locura, tú vences, y yo debo ceder!
  Contra la estupidez
  luchan en vano. Exaltada razón,
  hija resplandeciente de la cabeza divina,
  sabia fundadora del sistema del mundo,
  Guía de las estrellas, ¿quién eres entonces, si tú,
  atada a la cola del corcel sin freno de la locura,
  debes, gritando en vano, con la multitud ebria,
  con los ojos abiertos, precipitarte de cabeza en el abismo.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Wise, Daughter

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Schiller's Complete Works”, p.435

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• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

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• You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Night, Issues, Worry

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Song, Knowledge, Darkness

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.870, Ballantine Books

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• Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Winning, Men

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• Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

  William J. Bernstein

  People, Tolerance, Risk

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Growth

  Mark Steyn (2006). "America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It", p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

  Giambattista Vico

  Mind, Poetic, Faculty

  Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”

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