Sphere Quotes
390 quotes by 310 authors
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Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay…
— Bruno Schulz
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It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else’s shoes and understand the other’s different and contradictory sides and refrain from…
— Azar Nafisi
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No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere...
— Emily Bronte
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There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is…
— Philip K. Dick
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In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions,…
— Italo Calvino
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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us…
— Margaret Fuller
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Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that…
— Dan Brown
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I thought about the future, the oceans and continents he would cross, far away from everyone who knew and loved him. Far outside the sphere…
— Lisa Kleypas
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But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting…
— Neal Stephenson
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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured…
— Evelyn Underhill
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In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least…
— John Gresham Machen
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It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into…
— Charles Dickens
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Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action…
— Tim Ferriss
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However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
— Thomas Mann
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Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted…
— Eoin Colfer
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