Extracted Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic. — Helen Rowland
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some… — Sandra Steingraber
Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. — Anandamayi Ma
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their… — Hermann Goring
Everybody must have projects all the time. The maximum must be extracted from leisure ... The whole of life must look like a job, and… — Theodor Adorno
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking… — A. P. Herbert
The Simonian system can be extracted from the writings of Hippolytus. The cosmos begins with the one root, which is unfathomable Silence, pre-existent, limitless power,… — Edward F Edinger
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of… — Napoleon Hill
A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted. — Helen Rowland
There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which,… — William Shakespeare
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself… — Albert Einstein
Give me the gun." Ranger said. I extracted the gun from my pants and handed it over. Ranger held the gun in the pulm of… — Janet Evanovich
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was… — Laini Taylor
Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air arenâ€™t just shuffled about… — Deepak Chopra
I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat… — Rick Riordan
In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of… — Stephen Jay Gould
Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground. — Ivan Krastev

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