Everything Quotes
26859 quotes by 11693 authors
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Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
— Aristotle
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Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all…
— Lorenz Oken
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Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only work in vacuo, and one…
— Anatole France
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What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist and…
— Bruce Nauman
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Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow.…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin…
— Enid Bagnold
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter…
— Stephen King
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When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
— Margaret Laurence
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.
— Honore de Balzac
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
— Quintilian
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Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The best way to be boring is to include everything.
— Voltaire
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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we do is to improve it, if…
— Patrick Henry
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
— Philip Roth
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What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity…
— Hakuin Ekaku
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The idea of Buddha consciousness is that all beings are Buddha beings, and your whole function in meditation and everything else is to find that…
— Joseph Campbell
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To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
— Eckhart Tolle
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