Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.… — John Berger
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for peace… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness.… — Brian Swimme
The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain… — Ben Utecht
Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind… — Bruce Fife
It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out… — May Sarton
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and… — Bo Burnham
Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,… — Henry David Thoreau
Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by using the canvas… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic… — Don Edward Beck
Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a… — Washington Irving
There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the… — James Lovelock
"You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer… — Richard Paul Evans
Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty. — Francois Mauriac
Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have… — Ellen Glasgow
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the… — R. Buckminster Fuller
I love the vast surface of silence; and it is my chief delight to break it. — Carl Nielsen
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas. We must get… — B.K.S. Iyengar

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