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456 quotes by 396 authors

The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become… — Empedocles
My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was… — Thomas Huxley
The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn
I should just stay composed and run to the finish line. — Asafa Powell
When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men… — Peter Kropotkin
I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was… — Igor Stravinsky
And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done — Pierre Bonnard
A painting that is well composed is half finished. — Pierre Bonnard
The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me.' 'Amuse me.' 'Touch my sympathies.' 'Make me sad.' 'Make me… — Guy de Maupassant
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. — Sergei Prokofiev
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und VerklÃ¤rung. — Richard Strauss
Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already. — Gustav Mahler
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. — Billy Gibbons
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer kneeling on the floor praying fervently to God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so… — Eberhard Bethge
The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the… — Willy Ley
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in… — Galileo Galilei
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to… — Origen

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