Amid Quotes

292 quotes by 236 authors

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we… — Saint Basil
My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west. — Buffalo Bill
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. — Robert Burns
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still… — R. H. Tawney
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder
It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't escape any of… — Pema Chodron
How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence. — Benjamin Disraeli
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural… — Epicurus
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. — Mason Cooley
Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity. — William Stanley Jevons
From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers. — Lucretius
Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing… — Abraham Lincoln
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it… — Hector Hugh Munro
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was… — Anatole France
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things that have resisted… — John Playfair
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main. — Emily Bronte

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