Profusion Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. — William Carlos Williams
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The… — Masaoka Shiki
The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion. — Masaoka Shiki
Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. — Adi Shankara
Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that… — Thomas Ligotti
Every kiss provokes another. Oh, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring to life! So closely, in their profusion, do they… — Marcel Proust
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom… — Chester Himes
I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our… — Thomas Jefferson
Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the… — Francine Pascal
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Devotion means a profusion of life. — Jaggi Vasudev
Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything. — Henry David Thoreau
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull… — Christian Nestell Bovee
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid… — Amy Lowell
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… — Pat Conroy
Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I… — Martin Luther
Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea. — Gordon Lightfoot
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that… — Edmund Husserl
Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruceâ€”to which in fact he was once taken. Trying… — David Markson

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