Specters Quotes
15 quotes by 13 authors
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
— David Lloyd George
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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
— David Lloyd George
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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
— J. G. Ballard
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large…
— Susan Sontag
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The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape…
— J. G. Ballard
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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being…
— Parker J. Palmer
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In language that is searing and lyrical, evocative and precise, this exceptional book thinks with the zombies, specters, felons, slaves, dogs, cadavers, and other entities…
— Donna J. Haraway
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By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.
— Patrick Modiano
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Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.
— Gail Carson Levine
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I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
— Marilynne Robinson
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The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of…
— Philip Pullman
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Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live…
— Edmund Clowney
Who Wrote These Specters Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 15 Specters Quotes as follows: