Thick Quotes
693 quotes by 586 authors
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There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the…
— Ray Kurzweil
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The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard,…
— Diane Ackerman
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Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in…
— Oswald Chambers
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Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough.…
— Rolf Jacobsen
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the…
— Eudora Welty
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So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
— Mark Nepo
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Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
— Fletcher Knebel
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Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an…
— Anne Lamott
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
— Barack Obama
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Let’s summarize. What is awesomeness? Awesomeness happens when thick — real, meaningful — value is created by people who love what they do, added to…
— Umair Haque
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I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of…
— Mindy Kaling
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You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in…
— Benicio Del Toro
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My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair — things I’m so very grateful for now.
— Shailene Woodley
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I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins.…
— Katharine Weber
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The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire…
— John Evelyn
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At four o'clock in the morning most people have been asleep for hours, but at four o'clock in the morning the night-club children of a…
— Jimmy Durante
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