Tract Quotes

33 quotes by 32 authors

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To… — William Wordsworth
There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage… — Barack Obama
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. — William Shakespeare
When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching… — Charles Spurgeon
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract. — Tim LaHaye
Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
We are â€¦ the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things… — Ralph Caplan
But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions… — Galileo Galilei
The wind, as a direct motive power, is wholly inapplicable to a system of machine labour, for during a calm season the whole business of… — William Stanley Jevons
Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working. — Mary Ann Mobley
The ideal technique for successful fasting is the use of fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices. On such a diet, the full spectrum of nutrients… — Rudolph Ballentine
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound… — Joseph Addison
I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world. — Taliesin
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is… — Thomas Hobbes
As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble… — Augusten Burroughs

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