Innumerable Quotes
186 quotes by 158 authors
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But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was…
— Edward Eager
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So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in…
— William C. Bryant
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The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
— David Mitchell
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And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to…
— Jonathan Edwards
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A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a…
— Marcel Proust
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I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the…
— Virginia Woolf
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Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two…
— Anita Diament
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You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects…
— Yann Martel
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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
— William Butler Yeats
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I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him—that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating…
— John Green
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Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are…
— Jack Kerouac
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… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like…
— Gustave Flaubert
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even…
— Javier MarÃas
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In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at…
— J R Ward
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A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
— Jorge Luis Borges
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