Lodged Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents…
— Diane Ackerman
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly…
— Vaclav Havel
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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It is not necessary to seek the truth among others which it is easy to obtain from the Church; since the apostles, like a rich…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will…
— James Madison
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
— Seneca the Younger
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have…
— John Dickinson
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
— Peter Greenaway
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Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it…
— Patricia Hampl
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Joy begins with our convictions about spiritual truths we're willing to bet our lives on, and truths that are lodged so deeply within us that…
— Kay Warren
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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide…
— Mark Nepo
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All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.
— George Mason
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Go within. Use the inner body as a starting point for going deeper and taking your attention away from where it's usually lodged, in the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what the…
— Bob Matsui
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,…
— William Faulkner
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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But…
— Thomas Traherne
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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Lodged Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 50 Lodged Quotes, led by these top contributors: