Play Upon Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
— Voltaire
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I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play upon…
— Stephen Coonts
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Belief is a deception you play upon yourself....
— Rajneesh
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If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
— Robert Browning
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…
— John Milton
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Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized.
— Stuart Holden
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I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to…
— Themistocles
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
— Kate DiCamillo
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But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,…
— Walter Pater
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The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!†it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever…
— Roger Zelazny
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I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Who taught you to write in blood on my back? Who taught you to use your hands as branding irons? You have scored your name…
— Jeanette Winterson
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your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon…
— Jean Vanier
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Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,…
— William Shakespeare
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The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so…
— Jason Alexander
Who Wrote These Play Upon Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Play Upon Quotes as follows: