Bursting Quotes

• God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

  William Booth

  Faith, Passion, Heart

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• The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Spring, Flower

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

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• My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

  Rumi

  Heart, Joy, Expanding

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

  Richard Schmid

  Song, Art, Voice

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• In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Air, Water

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.10

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• There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think.

  Michel Foucault

  Struggle, Book, Thinking

  "Michel Foucault". Book by Didier Eribon translated by Betsy Wind, 1989.

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• Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

  Claude Monet

  Beautiful, Mad, Desire

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• But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

  Barry Gibb

  Way, Ends, Bubbles

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• The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Ideas, Ties, Errors

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, p.15, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

  Clement Attlee

  Wine, Thinking, Bottles

  'Hansard' 24 October 1950, col. 2705

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• Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Appreciation

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics

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• Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

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• Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Determination, Animal, Political

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• But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.

  Polly Toynbee

  Jail, Reason Why, Crime

  "Amid this panic over stabbings, we are ignoring what really cuts crime" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

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• I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

  Placido Domingo

  Color, Voice, Singing

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• It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

  John Green

  People, World, Paper

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.175, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

  Andrew Harvey

  Inspirational, Beauty, Broken Heart

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• And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives... and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.

  Nate Saint

  God, Christian, Years

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• It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.

  Harry Hill

  Funny, Nature, Glasses

  "Harry Hill". TV Series, 1997 - 2000.

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• Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heart, Soul, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Dec 09, 2016

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• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

  Jonathan Aitken

  Pride, Sin

  "Aitken 'will not be priest'" by Jamie Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 1999.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Heart

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

  Robert Pattinson

  Rome, Flying, Tears

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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