Bursts Quotes
129 quotes by 119 authors
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A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
— Julie Andrews
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Then sleep the seasons, full of might; While slowly swells the pod, And rounds the peach, and in the night The mushroom bursts the sod.…
— Coventry Patmore
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
— Harry Connick, Jr.
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I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
— Shelley Winters
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It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an…
— Eva Ibbotson
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Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.
— Evander Holyfield
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti…
— Mia Kirshner
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These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy: neutrino…
— John N. Bahcall
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation... I believe…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by…
— Ron Paul
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Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it…
— Lester R. Brown
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For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the…
— Rolf Potts
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It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.
— Maria Isabel Barreno
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Once again your mind explodes with a searing pain. A floodgate of memories bursts wide. Yet it is her face that keeps haunting you. Always…
— Todd McFarlane
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Trees Trees, proud standing people stretching fingertips to the sky, reaching, praying glorious attention, breathing light. strength shelter timeless confidence bending and firm comforting rooted…
— Wallace Stevens
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to…
— Charles Darwin
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Opinions. Ideas. Possibilities. So many! How can I choose? Between bursts of lightning-swift energy, I enjoy peaceful moments when the whole world seems to be…
— Margarita Engle
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I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get my point. You…
— Robin Sharma
Who Wrote These Bursts Quotes
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