Amid Quotes
292 Amid quotes by 233 unique authors
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And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And…
— John Green
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A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is:…
— Orhan Pamuk
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...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings…
— John Muir
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A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice…
— Ann Aguirre
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We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to…
— Alain de Botton
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He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of…
— Walt Whitman
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there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars
— John Green
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The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining…
— Anne Carson
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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his…
— Robert Burns
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No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great…
— Kate Morton
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
— William Gibson
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Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.
— Russell Brand
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You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and…
— Howard Pyle
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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each…
— John Green
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Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of…
— Karen White
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Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
— Mark Helprin
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The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!
— Robert Jordan
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate…
— Ruth Ozeki
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Amid Quotes
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