Composed Quotes
456 quotes by 396 authors
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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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
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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
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Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
— Samuel Butler
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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
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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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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
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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
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The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
— Confucius
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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
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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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
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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
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
— Alphonse Karr
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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
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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
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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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