Withdrawn Quotes
82 quotes by 75 authors
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
— Paul Cezanne
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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your body will be closed in, withdrawn. There are also…
— Antonio Damasio
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Your desire to withdraw from everything when Allah has involved you in the world of means is a hidden appetite. Your desire for involvement with…
— Ahmad ibn Ajiba
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The life of nature we must meet halfway; it is shy, withdrawn, and blends itself with a vast neutral background. We must be initiated; it…
— John Burroughs
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...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature, from what she…
— William Crookes
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Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated…
— Ralph Raico
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[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and…
— Douglas Harding
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The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once…
— Phyllis McGinley
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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn…
— Thomas Jefferson
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While it [tolerance] is more or less quietly and constitutionally withdrawn from the opposition, it is made compulsory behavior with respect to established policies.
— Herbert Marcuse
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If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse…
— Marjorie Pizer
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In the case of a creative mind, it seems to me, the intellect has withdrawn its watchers from the gates, and the ideas rush in…
— Friedrich Schiller
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When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
— Layne Staley
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