Motes Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of… — Henry David Thoreau
• Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the… — Olaf Stapledon
• The gay motes that people the sunbeams. — John Milton
• I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and… — Gautama Buddha
• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways,… — Annie Proulx
• The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when… — Marvin J. Ashton
• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power… — Madeleine L'Engle
• It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. — Muhammad Iqbal
• From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in… — Lucy Larcom
• It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes. — Flannery O'Connor
• Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
• There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… — Charles Lamb
• Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light. — Toni Morrison
• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great… — Kate Morton
• The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but a drop. This… — Farid al-Din Attar

Who Wrote These Motes Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Motes Quotes as follows:

• 1 Motes Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Motes Quote by Olaf Stapledon
• 1 Motes Quote by John Milton
• 1 Motes Quote by Gautama Buddha
• 1 Motes Quote by Annie Proulx
• 1 Motes Quote by Marvin J. Ashton
• 1 Motes Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
• 1 Motes Quote by Muhammad Iqbal
• 1 Motes Quote by Lucy Larcom
• 1 Motes Quote by Flannery O'Connor
• 1 Motes Quote by Cormac McCarthy
• 1 Motes Quote by Charles Lamb
• 1 Motes Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 Motes Quote by Kate Morton
• 1 Motes Quote by Farid al-Din Attar