"It may be that, while we plodding realists……" — William McFee
"It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life."
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William McFee
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24 Quotes by William McFee
William McFee has 24 quotes on this site.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
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One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting…
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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little…
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The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than…
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly,…
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is…
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More Abstracting Quotes
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs…
— William James
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I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint…
— Willem de Kooning
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The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature…
— Hilary Putnam
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The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
— Linus Torvalds
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When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end…
— Pablo Picasso
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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division;…
— Joseph Stalin
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The plane is simply abstracting the power stored in the wave by a distant gale, and using it to counteract…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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It is possible to claim only through extrapolation, by abstracting, by redrawing the man from his voyage of his own…
— Sorin Cerin
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