Crevice Quotes
31 quotes by 27 authors
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs…
— Paul Fleischman
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To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along.…
— Lewis Thomas
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Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.
— Thomas Paine
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we…
— Christopher Meloni
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Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever…
— Gautama Buddha
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Whenever we have seen a crevice in the crust of convention, we have called attention to it, because we have hoped for a force underneath,…
— Franz Marc
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If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that…
— Rumi
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A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.
— Rumi
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The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to…
— Alex Witchel
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It is not the courage to be that we must develop as much as the courage to become. We are responsible for our destiny. The…
— Paul Kurtz
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Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its…
— Sheng-yen
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For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow…
— James Dwight Dana
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The only philosophy that can be practiced responsibly in the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present themselves…
— Theodor Adorno
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A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has…
— Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your…
— Loren Eiseley
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The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski…
— Terry Pratchett
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The eyes were hollow and the carven head was broken, but about the high, stern forehead there was a coronal of silver and gold. A…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Who Wrote These Crevice Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 31 Crevice Quotes, led by these top contributors: