Wisp Quotes
37 quotes by 32 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.
— L. Frank Baum
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To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace. If we are…
— Judy Cannato
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.
— Jethro Tull
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--
— Jeanne DuPrau
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*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
Who Wrote These Wisp Quotes
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