Passers Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
— H.G. Wells
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All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by,…
— Ellen Key
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Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all…
— Aeschylus
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Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the…
— Tiziano Terzani
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The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in…
— Walter Benjamin
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I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and…
— Ian Mckellen
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The walking of passers-by offers a series of turns and detours that can be compared to "turns of phrase" or "stylistic figures." There is a…
— Michel de Certeau
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Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people,…
— Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
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But the blessed Bishop of Geneva taught his nuns another kind of prayer, which even the sick can make: to remain peacefully in the presence…
— Vincent de Paul
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What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a…
— Bernard Levin
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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who has talent in him must be purer in soul than anyone else. Another will be forgiven much, but to him it will not…
— Nikolai Gogol
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We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes…
— Jane Hamilton
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I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately, when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the…
— Therese of Lisieux
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I talked to everyone about the project: actors and extras, members of the crew and passers by.
— James D'arcy
Who Wrote These Passers Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Passers Quotes as follows: