"To sit and contemplate - to remember the……" — Virginia Woolf
"To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are."
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642 Quotes by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf has 642 quotes on this site.
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly,…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the…
— Sai Baba
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to…
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
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That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity
— Ambrose Bierce
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow…
— Charles Stanley
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If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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These guidelines contemplate a policy that will grant special benefits to illegal immigrants based on their unlawful presence in the…
— Mike Lee
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
— Howard Zinn
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Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money…
— Horace
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