Wild Quotes

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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes Featureless figures… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and… — Hsu Yun
Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly the Olympic Solidarity,… — Benjamin Boukpeti
The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild… — Charles Galton Darwin
God's grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
The real secret to freedom seems to lie in the ability to deal with ambiguity, the capacity to tolerate noise and yet hear within its… — William Thompson
If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but… — Virginia Woolf
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. — D. H. Lawrence
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity. — Henry Van Dyke
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no… — Chogyam Trungpa
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. — Edward Abbey
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled and flee he is trying… — Sun Tzu

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