Wild Quotes
2102 quotes by 1380 authors
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Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God…
— Frederic Farrar
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Can you imagine what it would feel like to become aware of an omnipresent ocean of wild divine love that has always been a secret…
— Rob Brezsny
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Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
— Robinson Jeffers
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O Love! they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.
— John Dryden
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I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some…
— Christopher Pearse Cranch
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And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing…
— E E Cummings
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
— Arthur Helps
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It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.…
— Thomas Paine
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He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
— James Joyce
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I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of…
— Yvon Chouinard
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The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness…
— Henry David Thoreau
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee…
— William Shakespeare
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Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river…
— Louis L'Amour
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The Sentimentalist, roughly speaking, is the man who wants to eat his cake and have it. He has no sense of honor about ideas; he…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Fear is feeling, is not what do you think. That feeling keeps your body in every way to 100% and makes you react like a…
— Unknown Author
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Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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