Dormant Quotes

118 quotes by 108 authors

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams. — Alice Walker
Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Knowledge itself is a neutral tool that can be used for good or evil. Wisdom, in contrast, always directs us toward happiness. The task of… — Daisaku Ikeda
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not… — Plotinus
I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which… — Helen Keller
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important -… — Idries Shah
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. — Aleksandar Hemon
Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Art does not imitate, but interpret. It searches out the idea lying dormant in the symbol, in order to present the symbol to men in… — Giuseppe Mazzini
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be… — Mos Def
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up… — Washington Irving
I had a trainer during 'Spiderman,' and I discovered I have deep-seated rage when I'm holding heavy weights over my head. Whatever dormant anger I… — Emma Stone
We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess. Favored Nations will be branded… — Steve Vai
Obviously people want social calm, but if you do not let clever and ingenious people to participate, obviously there must be some dormant volcano that… — Lech Walesa
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to… — Mark Helprin
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of… — Abigail Adams
The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you'll activate… — Wayne Dyer
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. — Malcolm X

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