"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the……" — Joseph Conrad
"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death."
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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More Asserting Quotes
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The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
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Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let…
— Buzz Aldrin
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When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that…
— Lewis Thomas
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon…
— Jacques Monod
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We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we…
— David Boaz
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in…
— Unknown Author
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We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting…
— Henry Lawson
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As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful…
— Benjamin Rush
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains…
— Barbara Sher
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