Arches Quotes

• An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Two, Weakness

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• All experience is an arch, to build upon.

  Henry Adams

  Inspirational, Moving On, Science

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)

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• Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

  John Ciardi

  Love Is, Two, Together

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• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

  John Huston

  Doors, Flow, Realizing

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• Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

  E. M. Forster

  Echoes, Silence

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Experience

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• Without stones there is no arch.

  Marco Polo

  Historical, Stones

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

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• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  Henry Miller

  Faith, Believe, Miracle

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving On, Experience, World

  'Ulysses' (1842) l. 6

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• Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dust, Meteors, Behind You

  Virginia Woolf (2006). “Orlando (Annotated): A Biography”, p.146, HMH

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• Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

  Kublai Khan

  Stones, Matter, Speak

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• Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Birthday, Motivation

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• I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Bridges, Hills

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• Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

  Prince Charles

  Curves, Design, Feelings

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• I am a part of all that I have met. Yet, experience is an arch wherethro gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades forever and forever when I move.

  Homer

  Moving, Forever, World

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• If one believes, then miracles occur.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Ifs

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

  Robert Boyle

  Would Be, Fabric, Stones

  Robert Boyle (1772). “The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle: In Six Volumes. To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author ...”, p.469

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• He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

  Ann Brashares

  Space, Looks, Wanted

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.82, Penguin

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• A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
  Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Air, Bridges, Circles

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.50, Courier Dover Publications

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• All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

  George Lucas

  Art, Wall, Technology

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Frost (1977). “North of Boston: poems”, Dodd Mead

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• I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference with which she passes from the salon to the housetop. When we caress her, she stretches herself and arches her back responsively; but this is because she feels an agreeable sensation, not because she takes a silly satisfaction, like the dog, in faithfully loving a thankless master. The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Dog, Silly, Sleep

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• No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears,
  No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears,
  Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn,
  Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,
  Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows
  Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Beauty, Stars, Night

  Erasmus Darwin (1806). “Containing the loves of the plants”, p.165

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• I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.

  Neil Gaiman

  Bridges, Yes I Can, Darkness

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

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• No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

  William Mathews

  Life, Ocean, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.3, Belford Bros.

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