Surface Quotes

1360 quotes by 1055 authors

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can… — Brandon Sanderson
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into… — Kim Edwards
I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I… — Sarah Monette
I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic,… — Anita Diament
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under… — John Eldredge
It was what accidental deaths did to people, made everybody's sea floor irregular and uneven, causing tidal currents to collide, surge upward, thereby resulting in… — Marisha Pessl
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught… — Evelyn Waugh
How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the… — Paulo Coelho
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of… — Russell Brand
Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet… — Mark Nepo
Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun… — Andrea Camilleri
Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might… — Silas House
Anna is the only proof I have that I was born into this family. Instead of dropped off on the doorstep by some Bonnie and… — Jodi Picoult
A story isn't a charcoal sketch, where every stroke lies on the surface to be seen. It's an oil painting, filled with layers that the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. — Guillermo del Toro
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no more rancor left… — Paulo Coelho
On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time… — John O'Donohue

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