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a feat QUOTES

1 " Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength. "

― Laini Taylor , Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2)

2 " It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin. "

― Peter Matthiessen , The Snow Leopard

3 " All thought is a feat of association. "

― Robert Frost

4 " It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system. "

― Michael Polanyi

5 " She was someone who heard each grain in the hour-glass, she felt the passing seconds like sandpaper against her softest skin. Time actually seemed to hurt her, and people helped her get through it. [..] Sometimes it seemed to Nathan that her life was just that, a feat of held breath, just another ten seconds, just another five, and then death would flood her lungs like water, a string of glass bubbles to the surface and then nothing. She was scared in a way that he could understand. The kind of fear that sends you running across a six-lane highway or jumping into rapids. She was someone who ran towards her fear, screaming. Who tried to frighten it. Who, in another period of history, would have been worshipped as a saint or burned as a witch. "

― Rupert Thomson , The Five Gates of Hell

6 " to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength "

7 " Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest. "

― , Love and Relativity (Preservation)

8 " An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. "

― Robert Frost

9 " There's a feat tonight! There'll be dancing." " A feast?" Kachka asked. " Who are we sacrificing? "

10 " An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor. "

11 " All thought is a feat of association having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew. "

12 " The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do. "