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Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.
~miscellaneous quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
[M]y own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
~miscellaneous quotes by J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Papers, 1927
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~miscellaneous sayings by Albert Einstein
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back.
~miscellaneous quotes by Wendell Phillips, Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~miscellaneous quotes by Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
~miscellaneous sayings by Dale Carnegie
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
~miscellaneous quotes by Andy Warhol
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665
I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes? My dear fellow, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.
~miscellaneous quotes by Laurens Van der Post
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Walter Gropius
In every age the good old days were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
~miscellaneous sayings by Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Between sisters, often, the child's cry never dies down. Never leave me, it says; do not abandon me.
~miscellaneous quotes by Louise Bernikow
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
~good sayings about Thinking by Will Durant
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine
~miscellaneous quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
~motivational quotes about Age sayings by Author Unknown
In Compassion lies the world's true strength.
~miscellaneous sayings by Buddha
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
~miscellaneous quotes by Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860
The dream follows the interpretation
~good sayings about Dreams by The Talmud
When I dunk, I put something on it. I want the ball to hit the floor before I do.
~miscellaneous quotes by Darryl Dawkins
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
~motivational quotes about Trees sayings by J.J. Furnas
It's not about the long ball, or the short ball, but the right ball.
~miscellaneous sayings by Bob Paisley
Take the time to come home to yourself every day.
~miscellaneous quotes by Robin Casarjean
One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.
~good sayings about Brothers by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
~miscellaneous quotes by Bethania McKenstry
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~motivational quotes about Freedom sayings by George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Maxims: Liberty and Equality, 1905
If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
~miscellaneous sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
~miscellaneous quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.
~good sayings about Friendship by Aristotle
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say, May new sufferings torment your soul.
~miscellaneous quotes by Soren Kierkegaard
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
~motivational quotes about Adversity sayings by Edwin Markham
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
~miscellaneous sayings by Ambrose Bierce
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