Surface Quotes

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She is a water bug on the surface of life. — Gloria Steinem
A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection. — George Santayana
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed… — Seneca the Younger
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. — Thomas Carlyle
Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a… — Marianne Williamson
The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel. — Kenneth Koch
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst,… — Charles Spurgeon
By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However… — Charles Dudley Warner
Remember, if you have not known sadness together with happiness you have not known anything yet. Then your happiness is superficial; your sadness is also… — Rajneesh
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep… — Max Lucado
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.… — John W. Gardner
What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.… — Carolyn Parkhurst
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle… — Walter Russell
One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of… — Adam Sedgwick
Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it enquires into the… — Charles Lyell
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts in turn. There… — Louis Agassiz

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