Plunges Quotes

39 Plunges quotes by 37 unique authors

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it… — Umberto Eco
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame… — Thomas Huxley
Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again. — Victor Hugo
No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation; and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance.… — Martin Buber
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last… — Suzanne Collins
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past. — James Joyce
Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest… — James Fenimore Cooper
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not… — Charles Williams
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into regions of rime and naked… — John Wesley Powell

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