Lurk Quotes
50 quotes by 46 authors
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment…
— Donald Cargill
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows…
— Hans Zinsser
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What lies lurk in kisses.
— Heinrich Heine
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life…
— Helen Keller
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The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk…
— John William Strutt
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Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.
— John Pope
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Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic…
— James Burnham
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Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.
— Boris Beizer
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The quest for homeland security is heading ... toward the quasi-militarization of everyday life ... If danger might lurk anywhere, maybe everything must be protected…
— William Greider
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If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell…
— Mark Kingwell
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
— O. Henry
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Like the character I played in Jekyll, we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to…
— James Nesbitt
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The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the…
— Jean Lorrain
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All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy.…
— Richard Branson
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Who Wrote These Lurk Quotes
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