Jars Quotes
184 quotes by 152 authors
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God…
— Lord Byron
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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In 1847 I gave an address at Newton, Mass., before a Teachers' Institute conducted by Horace Mann. My subject was grasshoppers. I passed around a…
— Louis Agassiz
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
— Bruce Willis
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It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall…
— Natalie Goldberg
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a…
— Robert Bloch
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One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate.…
— Freeman Dyson
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I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I…
— George Washington Carver
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand…
— Philip Yancey
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel…
— Dante Alighieri
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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as…
— Amory Lovins
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It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
— Horace
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Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.
— Rumi
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In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.
— Herman Melville
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In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I'm a big fan of money. I like it, I use it, I have a little. I keep it in a jar on top of…
— Adam Sandler
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