"We are not primarily put on this earth……" — Peter De Vries

"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through."

— Peter De Vries

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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries has 75 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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