Tract Quotes
33 Tract quotes by 32 unique authors
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If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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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
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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
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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
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But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.
— Tim LaHaye
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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
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We are … 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
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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
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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
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Only a portion of my intestinal tract was working.
— Mary Ann Mobley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.
— Taliesin
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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
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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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Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of…
— Douglas Adams
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CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal…
— Neil Gaiman
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My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery…
— Charlotte Bronte
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If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India,…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Who Wrote These Tract Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 33 Tract Quotes, led by these top contributors: