Indefinite Quotes

83 Indefinite quotes by 72 unique authors

When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,… — Reinhold Messner
The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,… — George Orwell
The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; He is the way, and all other ways are no way at all. If… — Paul Washer
To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. — Michael Ignatieff
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period. — Erwin Schrodinger
Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world. — Peter Thiel
It is reasonable to insist that when the government deprives a person of his or her liberty? and in this case for an indefinite period… — Jeff Bingaman
Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it… — Albert J. Nock
To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper. — Michel de Certeau
People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is so unclear, while words are… — Felix Mendelssohn
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's… — Daniel Quinn
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency… — Samuel Eliot Morison
As you get older there shouldn't be anything you won't try. The payoff is that you open up whole new avenues that are fun. It's… — Malcolm Forbes
An ecovillage is a human scale, full-featured settlement which integrates human activities harmlessly into the natural environment, supports healthy development and can be continued into… — Robert Gilman
Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist — David Attenborough
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities. — Stephen Hawking
My administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most… — Barack Obama
You know, we've been right on everything, haven't we? We told people about drones five years ago, didn't we? We told people about the NSA… — Matt Shea
So this world, I think, and an indefinite number of other worlds of our creation, are also - we're here for fun; we're here for… — Richard Bach
There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic… — Victor Hugo
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among… — James Hutton
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. — Eric Butterworth
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges

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