Innumerable Quotes

186 quotes by 158 authors

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other… — Joseph Addison
Innumerable actions are going on through us all the time. If we started counting them, we should never come to an end. — Vinoba Bhave
Those forms we fancy shadows, those strange lights That flash on dank morasses, the quick wind That smites us by the roadsideâ€”are the Night's Innumerable… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that… — John Updike
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous,… — Thomas Carlyle
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of… — Simone de Beauvoir
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms,… — Sarah Bernhardt
The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what… — David Petraeus
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process… — Eva Zeisel
Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men. — C. Wright Mills
The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the… — Nikola Tesla
There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others… — Democritus
Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood… — Zygmunt Bauman
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length… — James Fenton
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage. — Michael Shermer
Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the… — Stan Brakhage

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