Recess Quotes
100 quotes by 94 authors
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose…
— John Podhoretz
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
— Margaret Walker
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A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
— William Wordsworth
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Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one…
— Hermann Hesse
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Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all…
— Alfred de Musset
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I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal…
— Gustave Flaubert
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He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down…
— Anais Nin
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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though…
— John Milton
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I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance…
— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche…
— Carl Jung
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished:…
— Victor Hugo
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Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow began to fade…
— Nella Larsen
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully…
— John Calvin
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As a child, she’d always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn’t ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she…
— Tao Lin
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You belong to the biblical race of Nephilim. Your real father was an angel who fell from heaven. You're half mortal." The boy's dark eyes…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs,…
— Bernhard Schlink
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