Wisps Quotes
51 quotes by 46 authors
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is…
— Maya Angelou
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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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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
— Maya Angelou
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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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Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for…
— Mia Couto
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of…
— Alexander Calder
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I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.
— L. Frank Baum
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There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real,…
— Craig Ferguson
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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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All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a…
— Jimmy Breslin
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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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At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under…
— James Herriot
Who Wrote These Wisps Quotes
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