Submerged Quotes
67 Submerged quotes by 63 unique authors
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On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely…
— Charles Lindbergh
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If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made…
— Deborah Feldman
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There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.
— Marshall McLuhan
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A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting…
— Bill Walton
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A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
— Jack Vance
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As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we…
— Chris Ware
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A pure heart is one that is unencumbered, unworried, uncommitted and which does not want its own way about anything but which, rather, is submerged…
— Meister Eckhart
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I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
— William Peter Blatty
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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
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First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench…
— Winston Churchill
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Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for…
— Julio Cortazar
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I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the…
— Emeril Lagasse
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
— Virginia Woolf
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Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We take it for granted that Jesus was not interested in political life: his mission was purely religious. Indeed we have witnessed . . .…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it…
— J M Coetzee
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
— Ian Mcewan
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When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and…
— Sara Gruen
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Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead,…
— E. M. Forster
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...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in…
— Neil Postman
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Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the…
— Henry Miller
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Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall…
— Pablo Neruda
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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to…
— Veronica Roth
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We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white.
— Ian Mcewan
Who Wrote These Submerged Quotes
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