Best Our Feet Quotes
159 Our Feet quotes by 141 unique authors
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By all means must we fly; not with our feet, however, but with our hands.
— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
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Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'…
— Brion Gysin
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
— Marsilio Ficino
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Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently…
— Michael Bywater
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had…
— Yvon Chouinard
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The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.
— Joe McNally
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Touch is a reciprocal action, a gesture of exchange with the world. To make an impression is also to receive one, and the soles of…
— Robert Macfarlane
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Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible, by faith in the omnipotence, fidelity, and wisdom of the Almighty Saviour Who…
— Charles Studd
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The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the…
— Virginia Woolf
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My dog, Ginger, is jumpy-like me-sensitive to sound and sudden movement. She wasn't that way at first, but not long after we got her, my…
— Mira Bartok
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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong in the sea.…
— Billy Connolly
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Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if…
— David Whyte
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We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics…
— Lewis Thomas
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The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
— Pema Chodron
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In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space…
— Margot Wallstrom
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We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose,…
— Paul Muldoon
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I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes…
— Christopher McDougall
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The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our…
— Edwin Markham
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Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with…
— Hermann Hesse
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Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we…
— Ken Wilber
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