Wisp Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a… — John Gerstner
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human… — Adolf Hitler
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us… — Mahatma Gandhi
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp. — L. Frank Baum
To see ourselves as we truly areâ€”a wisp of love itselfâ€”is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are… — Judy Cannato
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the sun rises tipping… — Alice Munro
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which… — Henry David Thoreau
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. — Rene Dubos
Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea. — Jethro Tull
How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it,… — Leigh Newman
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which… — S. J. Perelman
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a… — Vincent Van Gogh
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of… — Vincent Van Gogh
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a… — Dean Koontz
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… — Cormac McCarthy
Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam… — Gerald Durrell
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- — Jeanne DuPrau
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book… — Donald Miller

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