Surface Quotes

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If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities,… — Frederic Dan Huntington
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant… — Vera Nazarian
The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly... I even do… — Hiroko Sakai
When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is… — Kristin Armstrong
The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper,… — Andrew X. Pham
We have learned that beneath the surface of an ordinary everyday normal casual conscious existence there lies a vast dynamic world of impulse and dream,… — Robert Edmond Jones
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the… — Eckhart Tolle
I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants, — Malcolm Wells
People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they… — Michael Coren
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want… — Criss Jami
When a photon comes down, it interacts with electrons throughout the glass, not just on the surface. The photon and electrons do some kind of… — Richard P. Feynman
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! — William Wordsworth
It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep… — D. H. Lawrence
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface… — John Dryden
Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,… — Victoria Finlay
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified… — Paul Davies
Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a… — David Frost
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession. — Mahatma Gandhi

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