Rift Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

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
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
Load every rift with ore. — John Keats
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
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
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
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
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
Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them. — Marcus Aurelius
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
"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
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment. — Philip Yancey
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
...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
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
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years. — Walter Jon Williams
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
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore. — John Keats
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
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

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