Crystal Quotes
303 quotes by 276 authors
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one:…
— Margaret Atwood
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are…
— Teresa of Avila
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the…
— John Berger
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking…
— T.A. Barron
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe that a diamond is the…
— Maya Angelou
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun…
— James Joyce
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me…
— Mark Twain
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I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when…
— Stephen King
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Mind dissolves only when you don't choose. And when there is no mind, you are for the first time in your crystal clarity, for the…
— Rajneesh
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Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like the sweetness of…
— Wallace Stevens
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.…
— Freeman Dyson
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It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than…
— Lewis Thomas
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Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour,…
— Rajneesh
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Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only…
— Rajneesh
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
— Robert Burns
Who Wrote These Crystal Quotes
276 authors contributed a total of 303 Crystal Quotes, led by these top contributors: