Level Quotes
3956 quotes by 2837 authors
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They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of…
— Thomas Merton
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The reason this system can’t be overthrown in this country,†Walter said, “is all about freedom. The reason the free market in Europe is tempered…
— Jonathan Franzen
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The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in its own nature,…
— Thomas Merton
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Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep…
— Janet Evanovich
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To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
— Thomas Merton
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I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
— Meryl Streep
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
— Terence McKenna
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Anyway, shes still getting to know you," Mike says. "Chicks are like that. They base how much tey like on you an emotional level. They…
— Susane Colasanti
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Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities,…
— Albert Einstein
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Toska - noun /ˈtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
— Robert Fulghum
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The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems…
— Guy Debord
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to…
— Charles Dickens
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They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the…
— Karen Kingsbury
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Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her…
— Simone Elkeles
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The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.†The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness…
— Eckhart Tolle
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A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested…
— James A. Baldwin
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We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring…
— Douglas Adams
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