Divining Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst…
— Marcel Proust
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If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with…
— Joan Didion
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If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning,…
— Karen Traviss
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The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more…
— Socrates
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He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,…
— John Robert Seeley
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,…
— Philip James Bailey
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I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and…
— Diane Setterfield
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But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Mooner was walking around laying his hands on the cars, divining karma. "this is it", he said, standing by a small khaki-colored jeep."this car has…
— Janet Evanovich
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Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.
— John Donne
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Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Divining Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Divining Quotes as follows: