Loose Quotes
997 Loose quotes by 742 unique authors
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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that…
— Gautama Buddha
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Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people.
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen…
— Julia Glass
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That was probably one of the things that if I look back at my career and say what is something I would try and do…
— Warren Moon
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Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source…
— James Salter
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins,
— Lorne Michaels
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A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
— Suzy Bogguss
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Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
— Swami Vivekananda
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With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break…
— Og Mandino
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A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.
— Clive James
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The really expert riders of horses let the horse know immediately who is in control, but then they guide the horse with loose reins and…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
— Laozi
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All general judgments are loose and imperfect
— Michel de Montaigne
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She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose…
— Raymond Chandler
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That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after…
— Brother Lawrence
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It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.
— Kiki Smith
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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can…
— Kij Johnson
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Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth…
— Jojo Moyes
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The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that…
— Jay Roach
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The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the…
— Sun Yat-sen
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Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
— Thomas Boston
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There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on…
— John Peel
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Hinduism comes closest to being a nature religion. Rivers, rocks, trees, plants, animals, and birds all play their part, both in mythology and everyday worship.…
— Ruskin Bond
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Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense…
— Hannah Kent
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