Lifeless Quotes
134 quotes by 120 authors
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Our ability to offer empathy can allow us to stay vulnerable, defuse potential violence, help us hear the word 'no' without taking it as a…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness,…
— Reinhold Messner
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Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.
— George Whitefield
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The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of…
— Vladimir Vernadsky
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Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to…
— Beah Richards
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just…
— Gilbert Highet
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A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth,…
— Plutarch
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'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If the opinion is…
— Carl Sagan
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It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to…
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly…
— Sayyid Qutb
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I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every…
— Nancy Lancaster
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And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents…
— Unknown Author
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History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass.
— Frederic Harrison
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Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.
— Iain McGilchrist
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There’s a lot of work being done today that doesn’t have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is…
— Sam Maloof
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I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact that we’re going…
— Jon Foreman
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The fatal effects of sin can be removed only by the provision that God has made. The Israelites saved their lives by looking upon the…
— Ellen G. White
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Sinners in their natural state lie dead, lifeless, and moveless; they can no more believe in Christ, nor repent, than a dead man can speak…
— Thomas Boston
Who Wrote These Lifeless Quotes
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