"The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine." — Rebecca West

"The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine."

— Rebecca West

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85 Quotes by Rebecca West

Rebecca West has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical…
The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to…
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather…
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless…
There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.
Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.
Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them…
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to…
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up…

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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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