Compressed Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment… — Joseph Conrad
Oh yes!' and suddenly the wintry frost-bound look of care had left Mr. Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had blown all anxiety… — Elizabeth Gaskell
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a… — Dylan Thomas
Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love." "I'm smaller, therefore my… — Alexandra Adornetto
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time. — Mark Twain
All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper â€” the weight of a human heart. — Joanne Harris
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely. — Yann Martel
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. — Lauren Oliver
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product… — John Collison
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until… — Cecelia Ahern
Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them… — John Grogan
But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth And the filth in the heart of Man… — Dame Edith Sitwell
We were just together. And that was enough. — Ramandeep Singh

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