Sphere Quotes
390 quotes by 310 authors
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Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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A bride, before a "Good-night" could be said, Should vanish from her clothes into her bed, As souls from bodies steal, and are not spied.…
— John Donne
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Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and…
— John Donne
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I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity,…
— Ilona Andrews
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One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out…
— Lauren Oliver
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Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment†in space and time. They…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
— Said Nursi
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Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in…
— William Shakespeare
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Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It…
— David Mitchell
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He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a…
— Rick Riordan
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I'm stupid," Leo mumbled. "Pi would expand outward, because it's infinite." He reversed the order of the numbers, starting in the center and working toward…
— Rick Riordan
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You're alive!" Percy said to the others. "The giants said you were captured. What happened?" Leo shrugged. "Oh, just another brilliant plan by Leo Valdez.…
— Rick Riordan
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I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through…
— David Levithan
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Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and,…
— E F Schumacher
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Why, Yrael?†it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground.…
— Garth Nix
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble…
— Plotinus
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who Wrote These Sphere Quotes
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