Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the… — Steven Saylor
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into… — Damon Knight
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it… — Khalil Gibran
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the… — Sri Aurobindo
We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower,… — Henry Van Dyke
It is only to the finest natures that age gives an added beauty and distinction; for the most persistent self has then worked its way… — Karl Blind
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the… — Virginia Woolf
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within… — Bertrand Russell
The people who really love and care about you will always surface in time and stay in your life. Always — Jessie J
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms… — Judith Martin
I think this is the case in the great majority of authoritarian states: on the surface, because of repression, everything seems frozen, but when the… — Aung San
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under… — Tim Cahill
Most sculptors make the mistake", he said, "of thinking of eyes as form and they therefore make them as spherical surfaces. Eyes are not forms,… — Walter Russell
We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is the… — Philip Graham Ryken
Those among us who have achieved the most have achieved only a fraction of what ALL of us are capable of. You haven't even begun… — Marianne Williamson
Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. — Swami Vivekananda
Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that… — Jack Handey

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