Quivering Quotes

68 quotes by 60 authors

The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air was filled with the low… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand
Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures. — Rodrigo Rey Rosa
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When… — Walter Scott
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of… — Henry Ward Beecher
The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after… — Oscar Wilde
The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head… — David Foster Wallace
To part is the lot of all mankind. The world is a scene of constant leave-taking, and the hands that grasp in cordial greeting today,… — R. M. Ballantyne
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life… — George Sand
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and… — Karel Capek
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull'd by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face toward me with… — Mazo de la Roche
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your… — Sarah Hall
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath is no longer… — Stephen Batchelor
The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets,… — Steven Pinker

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