Continuous Quotes
535 quotes by 446 authors
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The businessman who assumes that his life is everything, and the mystic who asserts that it is nothing, fail, on this side and on that,…
— E. M. Forster
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The fact that my continuous and public rejection of Christianity does not worry me in the least should suggest to you just how inadequate I…
— Sam Harris
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All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/…
— Charles Bukowski
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The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the…
— Annie Dillard
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Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and…
— Linda Pastan
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This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must.…
— Robertson Davies
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
— Charles Bukowski
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She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my…
— Adeline Yen Mah
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Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end.…
— Tobias Wolff
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The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Tell me again what we're doing here," I said, running a continuous scan of our surroundings. Fang popped some Cracker Jack into his mouth. "We're…
— James Patterson
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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe…
— Douglas Coupland
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There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in…
— George MacDonald
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When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The…
— Ingmar Bergman
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make…
— Ann Druyan
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Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret…
— Alain de Botton
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Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel…
— D. H. Lawrence
Who Wrote These Continuous Quotes
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