Indefinable Quotes
51 quotes by 47 authors
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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something…
— Aberjhani
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There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
— Chris Brasher
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When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of…
— Henri Poincare
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Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.
— Edward Abbey
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I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize…
— Helen Keller
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Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure,…
— Alexis Carrel
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Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and…
— Danny Wallace
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
— Countee Cullen
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We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke…
— Ivan Chtcheglov
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Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
— Abe Burrows
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable…
— Grantland Rice
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Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.
— Kim Wilkins
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God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn't cross the road to see them. It's people who have this indefinable…
— Nick Lowe
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We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work…
— Henri Bergson
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We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with…
— Joseph Campbell
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With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable…
— William Matthews
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There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to…
— Mark Twain
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