Wander Quotes
839 quotes by 651 authors
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish…
— Mark Twain
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I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things…
— Bobby Jones
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
— William James
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The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand…
— Virgil
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Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose…
— Marianne Bluger
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The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense…
— George W. Bush
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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen…
— Charles Dickens
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Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we…
— Alan Moore
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives…
— James Hillman
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Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power…
— Dalai Lama
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Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the…
— Terry Pratchett
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to…
— C.S. Lewis
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
— George Eliot
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the…
— Loren Eiseley
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him…
— A. E. Housman
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
— Henry Adams
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To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching…
— Julian Huxley
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must…
— Francis Bacon
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With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I…
— Karl Marx
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