Sprung Quotes

103 Sprung quotes by 93 unique authors

When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some… — B. C. Forbes
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so… — Charles Bukowski
The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a… — Swami Vivekananda
Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the… — Anatole France
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one… — Gaston Bachelard
I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked… — Fred Allen
When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung… — Marcel Proust
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of… — Mary Johnston
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy… — Sigmund Freud
But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous… — Friedrich Engels
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart,… — Franz Liszt
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of… — Mark Twain
I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a… — Chief Joseph
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. — Lucretius
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. — Max Landis
I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to… — Beverley Nichols
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. — John Dryden
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.… — Walter Benjamin
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get… — Tim Cahill
A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making… — Michael Azerrad
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you… — Dan Rather
For we are all sprung from earth and water — Xenophanes
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to… — Graham Joyce

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