Best Exquisitely Quotes
70 Exquisitely quotes by 61 unique authors
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in…
— Oscar Wilde
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At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a…
— Carl Zimmer
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I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of…
— Marlena De Blasi
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To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to their doors, to…
— Charlotte Mason
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My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And…
— Winston Churchill
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Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely…
— Wally Schirra
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Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
— Saint Augustine
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Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.
— H. L. Mencken
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Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled to pass through…
— George Will
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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
— Langston Hughes
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
— Carl Sagan
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The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which…
— Charlotte Bronte
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into…
— Toni Morrison
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He turned his dark eyes on the girl whom he had dreamed of so often over the previous months. Beside him, at that very moment…
— Anna Godbersen
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Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps…
— Betty Smith
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Not knowing is half the fun," Aphrodite said, "Exquisitely painful isn't it? Not being sure who you love and who loves you? Oh, you kids!…
— Rick Riordan
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To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In…
— Brennan Manning
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The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
— Mark Twain
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