Wisps Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

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
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
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
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. — Maya Angelou
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
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
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
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp. — L. Frank Baum
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
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
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
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
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

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