"When a torrent sweeps a man against a……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology…
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that…
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What's at risk [in 100 years] if we do not take action, truly is the survival of civilization as we…
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I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.
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Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held…
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved…
— Iannis Xenakis
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of…
— R. Scott Bakker
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By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude…
— Jonathan Sarfati
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Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends…
— John O'Donohue
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A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the…
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