Underlying Quotes

305 Underlying quotes by 267 unique authors

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things. — Thomas Hardy
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable… — Tao Lin
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean… — Karen Marie Moning
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,… — David Byrne
Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic… — Walter Isaacson
If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself - so that without this underlying trust in the whole system of… — Alan Watts
You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly… — Audrey Hepburn
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the… — Stephen Hawking
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it. — Lawrence Durrell
Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat. — Eoin Colfer
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe. Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one. — Terry Pratchett
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause… — Deepak Chopra
In many college English courses the words â€œmythâ€ and â€œsymbolâ€ are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ainâ€™t no good unless you can… — Ursula K. Le Guin
nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a… — Charles Yu
Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile… — Neal Stephenson
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded… — Lyndon B. Johnson
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities. — Deepak Chopra
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. — A J P Taylor

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