Composed Quotes

456 quotes by 396 authors

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world… — Alexandre Dumas
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed;… — Walter Benjamin
There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library… — Italo Calvino
Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected â€” an arrival, an… — Marilynne Robinson
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions… — John B. S. Haldane
â€¦ he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage. — Arundhati Roy
Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present — Jane Austen
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- — Abraham Verghese
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder. — Aristotle
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. — Saint Augustine
She is mine.' Edwardâ€™s low voice was suddenly dark, not as composed as before. 'I didnâ€™t say I would fight fair. — Stephenie Meyer
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. — Vivienne Westwood
But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably… — Lauren Willig
For what we suppose to be our love or our jealousy is never a single, continuous and indivisible passion. It is composed of an infinity… — Marcel Proust
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light… — Louise Erdrich
Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what… — Joseph Campbell
I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I… — Isaac Asimov

Who Wrote These Composed Quotes

396 authors contributed a total of 456 Composed Quotes, led by these top contributors: