Consummation Quotes

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So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul… — Helen Keller
The gesture of the amorous embrace seems to fulfill, for a time, the subject's dream of total union with the loved being: The longing for… — Roland Barthes
If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even… — Ernest Becker
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. — James Dickey
Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you… — Miyamoto Musashi
As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. — Richard Hofstadter
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus… — Edward Weston
The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the… — C.S. Lewis
The man whose nature is such that by one path alone his chief desire will reach consummation will try to find it on that path,… — F. H. Bradley
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls… — John Quincy Adams
Greedï‚¼has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome. — Erich Fromm
Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat, conversation flags and all the time the heart is threatening to… — Jeanette Winterson
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not… — C.S. Lewis
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,… — William Shakespeare
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment,… — C.S. Lewis
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. — Woodrow Wilson
I mean a nigga did a lot of waiting we aint married but tonight I need some consummation. — Kanye West
Very soon the shadow will give way to Reality. The partial will pass into the Perfect. The foretaste will lead to the Banquet. The troubled… — John Piper

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