"If there is a look of human eyes……" — Alice Meynell
"If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds."
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Alice Meynell
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16 Quotes by Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell has 16 quotes on this site.
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and…
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Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
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We talk of sunshine and moonshine, but not of cloud-shine, which is yet one of the illuminations of our skies.…
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of…
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I come from nothing: but from where come the undying thoughts I bear?
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of…
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It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much…
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards…
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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More Crowds Quotes
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one of 1,245 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Never follow the crowd.
— Bernard Baruch
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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
— Annie Besant
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I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with…
— Justin Bieber
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his…
— Buffalo Bill
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap…
— Emily Blunt
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
— Edward de Bono
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Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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