Speck Quotes
100 Speck quotes by 96 unique authors
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My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got…
— Sarah Manguso
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Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
— Elif Safak
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The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a…
— Annie Dillard
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Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything…
— Alvar Aalto
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast…
— Walter Lang
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I wonder what Heaven must think of the people down here on this small black speck in the universe that is earth, or of all…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of…
— Ken Wilber
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Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all…
— Jason Calacanis
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In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger…
— Benjamin Franklin
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How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.
— Robert Southey
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I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of…
— Joan Miro
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The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.
— Frederick Lenz
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Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world…
— Adrian Desmond
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In the 50,000 years that followed—a time four to eight times shorter than the entire length of time the Neanderthals existed—the replacement crowd not only…
— Svante Paabo
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You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?
— Brian Greene
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck…
— Clarence Darrow
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Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
— George Eliot
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Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm…
— Thomas Sowell
Who Wrote These Speck Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 100 Speck Quotes, led by these top contributors: