Rift Quotes
34 quotes by 31 authors
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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Load every rift with ore.
— John Keats
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during…
— Peter Fonda
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief…
— Brian Evenson
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Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general…
— David C. Cassidy
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Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far…
— George Leigh Mallory
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Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but…
— Flora Thompson
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"The ego is created by the rift. When you are fighting, the ego comes in; when you are not fighting, the ego cannot come in.…
— Rajneesh
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
— Philip Yancey
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Bourgeois society, rife with an atomism or monadism of secluded egos, is profoundly uncomfortable with topics of domination just because of the rift between how…
— Kenny Smith
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...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We are one people despite the ostensible rifts, cracks, and differences between the American and Soviet democracies. We are one people and it is not…
— Chaim Weizmann
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
— Walter Jon Williams
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Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war,…
— Gerald Kersh
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You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
— John Keats
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I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not…
— Ernest Shackleton
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In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we…
— Salman Rushdie
Who Wrote These Rift Quotes
31 authors contributed a total of 34 Rift Quotes, led by these top contributors: