Caves Quotes - Page 21

• The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Thinking, Rivers

  "The Portable Nietzsche".

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• O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

  William Shakespeare

  Beautiful, Heart, Dragons

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• Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for.

  Mick Dodson

  Art, Kings, Grateful

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• Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Dark, Men, Grace

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.103, Fig

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• No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join him there.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Childhood, Secret, Safe

  1987 Chatterton, ch.10.

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• The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

  Khalil Gibran

  People, Solitude, Relaxation

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Love, Life, Soul

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Cat, Animal

  "The Unadulterated Cat". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.

  Jim Courier

  Softball, Sports, Running

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• Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Thinking, Decision

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• Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

  David Massengill

  Writing, Everyday, Generations

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• Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

  Wes Bentley

  Beauty, Heart, World

  "Fictional character: Ricky Fitts". "American Beauty", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

  Mo Rocca

  Imagination, Torches, Dinosaurs

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• Massive, massive mentality. The mental strength, you've just got to have that because you get a lot of stick, as a goalkeeper you're the last line of defence. When a goal goes in everyone looks at you, you've got to be able to deal with that. If you make a mistake, it could be a bad mistake, how are you going to recover? Are you going to react positively or are you just going to cave in?

  David Seaman

  Mistake, Goal, Looks

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• Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Ocean, Dark, Sea

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1995). “The Lost World and Other Stories”, p.324, Wordsworth Editions

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories.

  Candace Pert

  Memories, Fear, Confused

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• Two thousand years ago Jesus is crucified, three days later he walks out of a cave and they celebrate with chocolate bunnies and marshmallow Peeps and beautifully decorated eggs. I guess these were things Jesus loved as a child.

  Billy Crystal

  Jesus, Easter, Children

  Billy Crystal (2013). “Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?”, p.36, Macmillan

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• You don't have to be a cave man to appreciate Lascaux.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Appreciation, Men, Appreciate

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• It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Long, Community

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• I've had people tell me to get Mystic Tan, blonde highlights, choppy haircuts, but I've made a conscious decision not to cave.

  Kat Dennings

  People, Decision, Blonde

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.

  Taylor Swift

  Brother, Thinking, Doors

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• I found you people in mud huts.. you were living in CAVES!

  Kane

  Found You, People, Mud

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