Germs Quotes
151 quotes by 131 authors
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The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same…
— Rachel Cohn
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... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests…
— Jean Webster
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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
— T.H. White
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.
— Stephen King
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He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a…
— Cormac McCarthy
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To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
— Henry Miller
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will…
— Bertrand Russell
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There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
— Pearl S. Buck
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The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in latency,…
— Annie Besant
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Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by…
— Mark Twain
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I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool…
— Linus Pauling
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If the germ plasm wants to swim in the ocean, it makes itself a fish; if the germ plasm wants to fly in the air,…
— George Wald
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The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction…
— Charles Darwin
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It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
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Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American…
— William T. Vollmann
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When you think about all the childhood memories youve had paying kiss and chase in grade 2 and spin the bottle at camp in grde5-8…
— Talyiah
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