Pieces Quotes
4050 Pieces quotes by 2766 unique authors
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and…
— Carl Jung
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Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered.
— Carl Jung
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That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and love…
— Unknown Author
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A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
— Harold Pinter
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Why shouldn't we, so generally addicted to the gigantic, at last have some small works of art, some short poems, short pieces of music [...],…
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as the governor, I came down on the side of preserving the…
— Mitt Romney
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I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess…
— Thom Yorke
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It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to…
— Bat for Lashes
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Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would…
— Kurt Cobain
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Being in love means you are completely broken, then put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breast. She…
— Jason Molina
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The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14…
— John Grisham
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I love chess, and I didnt invent Fischerandom chess to destroy chess. I invented Fischerandom chess to keep chess going. Because I consider the old…
— Bobby Fischer
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James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in…
— Raymond Chandler
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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If Tal sacrifices a piece, take it. If Petrosian sacrifices a piece, don't take it.
— Mikhail Botvinnik
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This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.
— Jane Jacobs
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In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned…
— Studs Terkel
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I don't consider myself a musician who has achieved perfection and can't develop any further. But I compose my pieces with a formula that I…
— Thelonious Monk
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I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed…
— Shaun Tan
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I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that book (which I still have-battered…
— Philip Pullman
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Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base,…
— Jose Saramago
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on…
— Malala Yousafzai
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If you are left with only one piece of homespun,wear it with dignity
— Mahatma Gandhi
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