Operate

“The thing about sex is that God gives men a brain and a dick, but only enough blood to operate one at a—” He never heard her approach or lift herself into the La-Z-Boy in order to gain the necessary height; he was concentrating too completely on what he was doing.

What particular difficulty are you refusing to turn your back upon at the present moment?” “The difficulty, Hardin, of persuading the Foundation to co-operate.

Breed told me I wasn’t supposed to co-operate with you.

He’s a very bitter guy, the brother, because he was a doctor in the war and now he can’t operate any more because his nerves are shot, so he boozes all the time, but he’s pretty witty and all.

But the mysterious forces that move humanity (mysterious because the laws of their motion are unknown to us) continued to operate.

Stu tried to operate on him, but it was no good.

Hawat said–” “It was a hunter-?seeker,” she reminded him “That means someone inside the house to operate it.

Oh, but I must not forget, my dear friend John, that you loved her; and I have not forgotten it, for it is I that shall operate, and you must only help.

His fundamental desire is that the war which is in him should come to an end; happiness appears to him in the character of a soothing medicine and mode of thought (for instance, Epicurean or Christian); it is above all things the happiness of repose, of undisturbedness, of repletion, of final unity—it is the “Sabbath of Sabbaths,” to use the expression of the holy rhetorician, St. Augustine, who was himself such a man.—Should, however, the contrariety and conflict in such natures operate as an additional incentive and stimulus to life—and if, on the other hand, in addition to their powerful and irreconcilable instincts, they have also inherited and indoctrinated into them a proper mastery and subtlety for carrying on the conflict with themselves (that is to say, the faculty of self-control and self-deception), there then arise those marvelously incomprehensible and inexplicable beings, those enigmatical men, predestined for conquering and circumventing others, the finest examples of which are Alcibiades and Caesar (with whom I should like to associate the first of Europeans according to my taste, the Hohenstaufen, Frederick the Second), and among artists, perhaps Leonardo da Vinci.

“If you could see out from inside a dead person you could still see, but you couldn't operate the eye muscles, so you couldn't focus.

Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.

“And God said unto Abraham, Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them 400 years.” This promise, then, to Abraham and his seed forever to inherit the land of Canaan, had it been a fact instead of a fable, was to operate in the commencement of it, as a curse upon all the people and their children, and their children’s children for 400 years.

It was easy to see that they could not long be companions or cooperate, since one would not operate at all.

Someone who will not plead, or explain, or think he can alter my design with entreaties, because he alone really knows how I operate.

It was indeed but a passing trance, that only made me feel with renewed acuteness so soon as, the unnatural stimulus ceasing to operate, I had returned to my old habits.

A new immigrant from Abkhazia trying to operate a microwave was like a deep-sea tube worm doing brain surgery.

Dakhil-Allah thrust his ear forward in the direction of the sound, and understood that over there lay Madahrij, the small station below which we meant to operate.

The acting-Commissioner wants it improved, so he can operate quicker.

You talk of prisons and police and legalities, the perfect illusions behind which a prosperous power structure can operate while observing, quite accurately, that it is above its own laws.” “And you think crimes can be dealt with by …” “Not crimes, Duncan, sins.” “So you think your religion can …” “Have you noted the primary sins?” “What?” “Attempting to corrupt a member of my government, and corruption by a member of my government.” “And what is this corruption?” “Essentially, it’s the failure to observe and worship the holiness of the God Leto.” “You?” “Me.” “But you told me right at the beginning that …” “You think I don’t believe in my own godhead?

This magic will cease to operate the moment that Harry turns seventeen; in other words, at the moment he becomes a man.

If you don’t want peritonitis to set in, we’ll have to operate right away.

I wouldn’t let you operate on me!” It was like that.

Let’s rest now, Siddhartha.” Siddhartha stayed with the ferryman and learned to operate the boat, and when there was nothing to do at the ferry, he worked with Vasudeva in the rice field, gathered wood, plucked the fruit off the banana trees.

And you will tell him to dream that dream for me, won’t you?’ But Dunbar had nausea and dizziness with his constant headache and was not inclined to co-operate with Major Sanderson.

Such enhancements of the market price are evidently the effect of natural causes which may hinder the effectual demand from ever being fully supplied, and which may continue, therefore, to operate forever.