Composed Quotes

456 quotes by 396 authors

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one… — Walter Benjamin
The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of… — Annie Besant
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. — Samuel Butler
Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into… — Diablo Cody
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or… — Robert E. Lee
If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really… — Taisen Deshimaru
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. — Confucius
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be… — Aristotle
Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. — Nicolas Chamfort
It's incredible, they're [the medals] beautiful and as soon as they put them around your neck, it's pretty amazing. Shannon played outstandingly well. She was… — Jennifer Botterill
BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. — Ambrose Bierce
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is… — Harry J. Anslinger
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. — Alphonse Karr
At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to… — Lucretius
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets… — Thomas Carlyle

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