Quickening Quotes

42 Quickening quotes by 37 unique authors

Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no… — Eric Milner-White
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life… — A C Dixon
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed… — James Joseph Sylvester
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in… — Leonardo da Vinci
I believe that success brings responsibility. It also does not bring immunity to the consequences of our quickening march towards oblivion. The bottom line is… — Harry Chapin
There has never been a time on Earth like we see today. What we need are more ways to experience our interconnectedness - it is… — John Denver
Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most… — Willard Van Orman Quine
In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that… — Muriel Rukeyser
Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is… — Emily Greene Balch
A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer — Mark Rothko
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than… — Yann Martel
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. — William Ernest Henley
Uncertainty as to our relationship with God is one of the most enfeebling and dispiriting of things. It makes a man heartless. It takes the… — Horatius Bonar
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought… — Thomas Cole
Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste. — Ralph Washington Sockman
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what… — John O'Donohue
It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good… — Jo Coudert
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. — Michael J. Gelb
The body of the human world is sick. Its remedy and healing will be the oneness of the kingdom of humanity. Its life is the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body, felt within A correspondent breeze, that gently moved With quickening virtue, but… — William Wordsworth
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of… — Martha Graham
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. — James Russell Lowell
It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those… — Neale Donald Walsch
The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of… — James D. Watson
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums... — Mary Oliver

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