Come Across Quotes
282 quotes by 248 authors
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Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace…
— Julie Burchill
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I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to…
— Drew Carey
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man…
— Bruce Lee
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Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim,…
— Satish Kumar
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the…
— Alistair Cooke
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Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my…
— Brad Pitt
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You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the…
— Rajneesh
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Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.…
— Rajneesh
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A man of knowing attains to a sense of humour. Let this always be remembered. If you see someone who has no sense of humour,…
— Rajneesh
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared…
— Charles Darwin
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No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven…
— C.S. Lewis
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love,…
— Boris Pasternak
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It is within your hands to be frustrated in life or not. Just your expectations should become smaller, smaller, smaller, and in the same proportion…
— Rajneesh
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I'm pretty sarcastic, and sometimes that doesn't come across on the Internet. It seems I'm being rude or stupid.
— Sky Ferreira
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You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking…
— George Orwell
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It is almost always a greater pleasure to come across a semicolon than a period. The period tells you that that is that; if you…
— Lewis Thomas
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When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't…
— Kingsley Amis
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Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them.
— Arthur Eddington
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