Indefinable Quotes

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Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. — Lawren Harris
Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden… — Honore de Balzac
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what. — Bill Vaughan
I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very… — Tommy Lee Jones
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however… — George Edward Woodberry
Love, I would later conclude, was all things to all people. Love was the breaking and healing of hearts. Love was misunderstood, love was faith,… — R.J. Ellory
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. — Oscar Wilde
I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say… — Bret Easton Ellis
I want to know what it means to be in love. But in my dictionary 'in love' is indefinable. — Ellen Hopkins
He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous… — Victoria Hanley
What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. — Paul Gauguin
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel… — Jorge Luis Borges
And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which… — Donald Miller
Don't bother Me with promises. Vows are cheaply manufactured, come with no guarantees. Don't bother to say you love me. The word is indefinable. Joy… — Ellen Hopkins
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, itâ€™s appearance,… — W S Merwin
In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians… — Russell Kirk
This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try… — Albert Camus
He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would be… — Cassandra Clare
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer… — Erin O'Connor

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