Fields Quotes
2957 quotes by 2075 authors
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Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and…
— Tom Robbins
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Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of…
— Atul Gawande
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In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like…
— Robert Bringhurst
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For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget…
— William Faulkner
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The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always…
— Harry S. Truman
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Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws…
— Thomas Pynchon
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They moved together, blue diamonds on a green field.
— Gregory Maguire
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The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. -…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had…
— Charlotte Bronte
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until you got ice cream spilled on you, you’re not doing field work
— Randy Pausch
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
— Randall Munroe
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...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy…
— Jack London
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