Inscribed Quotes
74 quotes by 66 authors
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Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
— Maya Angelou
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Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are a daily record…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Christian marriage is that sacrament which builds up the community of the Church and of society. Marriage has been inscribed in creation's design by God,…
— Pope Francis
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Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes…
— John Dos Passos
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In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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I knew that I shouldn’t have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my…
— Michael Chabon
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of…
— Lord Byron
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Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are…
— Michel Foucault
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is…
— Marcel Duchamp
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
— Douglas Adams
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The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,…
— Gilles Deleuze
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A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes…
— Michel Foucault
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A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to…
— Damon Galgut
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Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones,…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too:…
— Dale Carnegie
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something…
— Erin Morgenstern
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Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no…
— Tammara Webber
Who Wrote These Inscribed Quotes
66 authors contributed a total of 74 Inscribed Quotes, led by these top contributors: