Composed Quotes
456 quotes by 396 authors
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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted,…
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"…
— Carl Jung
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TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general…
— Marquis de Sade
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Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
— Duke of Wellington
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Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
— Mark Twain
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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or…
— Rumi
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The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the…
— David Malouf
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There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The Gita is a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Vedas and the Upanishads.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style. The picture isn’t straight. It isn’t done well.…
— Lisette Model
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The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of…
— Rob Brezsny
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I had composed songs, I sang, and played the vina. Practising this music I arrived at a stage where I touched the music of the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Man cannot live by bread alone. Man after all is composed of intellect and soul.
— Haile Selassie
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Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.
— Roger Ebert
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Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features…
— Francisco Goya
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The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to…
— Robert Dale Owen
Who Wrote These Composed Quotes
396 authors contributed a total of 456 Composed Quotes, led by these top contributors: