Below Quotes
930 quotes by 773 authors
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I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If…
— Andrew Wyeth
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Too low they build who build below the skies.
— Edward Young
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
— Milan Kundera
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As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red…
— Dave Eggers
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It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from…
— Bruce Lee
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Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.
— Kathy Acker
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Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.
— Emily Dickinson
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above…
— Rene Daumal
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It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look…
— E. M. Forster
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Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if…
— P D Ouspensky
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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface…
— Mitch Albom
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
— Saint Augustine
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He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in…
— Neil Gaiman
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And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.
— Colin Powell
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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination…
— Charles Dickens
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