Fields Quotes
2957 quotes by 2075 authors
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Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took…
— Boris Pasternak
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We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through…
— Isabel Allende
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Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers
— E E Cummings
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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed…
— Jack Kerouac
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and…
— Anais Nin
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How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from…
— Timothy Zahn
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Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the…
— Rohinton Mistry
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I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before…
— Ilona Andrews
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That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.…
— Jodi Picoult
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But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger…
— Anne Lamott
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Hooves clomping over the whitewashed planks, Doren sprinted along the boardwalk after Rondus, a portly satyr with butterscotch fur and horns that curved away from…
— Brandon Mull
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What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure…
— Italo Calvino
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The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on…
— Virginia Woolf
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6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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