Spheres Quotes

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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of… — Richard P. Feynman
Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I… — Oscar Wilde
My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which… — Henry James
Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and… — Thomas Hardy
I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that?… — William Shakespeare
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I… — Ruth Graham
Philosophy is a necessary activity because we, all of us, take a great number of things for granted, and many of these assumptions are of… — Karl Popper
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley
While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a… — Augusten Burroughs
Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If… — Ayn Rand
Great problems that face the world today in both the private and the public sphere cannot be solved by women â€“ or by men â€“… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if… — Margaret Atwood
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination… — Marquis de Sade
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in… — Bertrand Russell
What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world. — Annie Dillard
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to… — Tom Robbins

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