Dormant Quotes

118 quotes by 108 authors

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old… — Margaret Atwood
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and… — Virginia Woolf
One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that… — Anne Fadiman
Itâ€™s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps itâ€™s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever… — Malcolm X
make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home God has… — Rumi
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because… — Rebecca Solnit
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run… — Laurie Halse Anderson
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen… — John Calvin
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness… — Viktor E. Frankl
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real… — John Connolly
But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on… — Sarah Vowell
Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of… — Marcel Proust
Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the… — Cassandra Clare
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit… — Ben Elton
This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls… — Jay-Z
You told me once of the plants that lie dormant through the drought, that wait, half-dead, deep in the earth. The plants that wait for… — Lucy Christopher
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to… — Vaclav Havel

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