Plumb Quotes
27 quotes by 22 authors
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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Now remember: When things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb mad-dog mean.…
— Josey Wales
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The Bible judges the church; the church does not judge the Bible. The Bible is the foundation for and the creator of the church; the…
— Timothy Keller
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Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.
— Menno Simons
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Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell…
— Carl Sagan
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That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in…
— Ramona Koval
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an…
— Umberto Eco
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Sure as the most certain sure .... plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I…
— Walt Whitman
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Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and…
— John Wanamaker
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We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
— Michel de Montaigne
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When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its…
— Peter Zumthor
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Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular…
— Antonin Scalia
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Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine…
— Gail Collins
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Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from…
— Ken Kesey
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Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It…
— George MacDonald
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I want my inner truth to be the plumb line for the choices I make about my life - about the work that I do…
— Parker J. Palmer
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I know what you're thinking," Grandma said into the silence. "Do I have anymore bullets in this here gun? Well, with all the confusion, what…
— Janet Evanovich
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Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and…
— Walt Whitman
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Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as…
— Robert E. Howard
Who Wrote These Plumb Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 27 Plumb Quotes as follows: