Fancy Quotes - Page 9

• Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! - long - long since had ye numbered out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground. When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it, to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rose-buds of delights; and have taken a few turns on it, come back strengthened and refreshed.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sweet, Taken, Men

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...”, p.94

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• Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Hands, Romance, Enemy

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.

  Laozi

  Kindness, Work, Ideas

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• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

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• It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.

  Kit Williams

  Dog, Moon, Rabbits

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• Pepperidge Farm bread. That's fancy bread. You can tell it's fancy because it's wrapped twice. You open it, and it still isn't open. That's why I don't buy it. I don't need another step between me and toast.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Needs

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• I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

  John Lee Hooker

  Play, People, Feelings

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• Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

  Sheridan Smith

  Nice, Feelings, States

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• I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

  Sheridan Smith

  Mind, Scene

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• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

  James Boswell

  Writing, May, Mankind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.43

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• We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Important, Technique, Information

  "Information Management: A Proposal". www.w3.org. March 1989.

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• To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, People, Understanding

  Jimmy Carter (1995). “Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation”, Puffin

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• When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Joseph Addison (1827). “A Selection [- Second Selection] from the Paper of Addison: In the Spectator and Guardian, for the Use of Young Persons”, p.236

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• A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

  John Milton

  Singing, Poet, Reason

  John Milton (1872). “Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words”, p.78

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• I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.

  Prince Philip

  Funny, Home, Cooking

  In 'Observer' 28 Oct. 1962

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• Children have a primal need to know who they are, to love and be loved by the two people whose physical union brought them here. To lose that connection, that sense of identity, is to experience a wound that no child-support check or fancy school can ever heal.

  David Blankenhorn

  Children, School, Two

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• I love to eat and I don't believe in denying myself, so I have to work out. I'm not obsessed with it, I don't have a trainer or do any of the fancy classes, but I usually put on my iPod and run on the treadmill for an hour a few days a week.

  Amber Rose

  Running, Believe, Class

  "Amber Rose's Singular Look" by Johanna Cox, www.elle.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Home, Able, Walks

  "The green room". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimens of human beings what an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence, look again at the extra employment a new country added to our dominions gives.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Country, Race, Giving

  "Confession of Faith". Essay by Cecil Rhodes, 1877.

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• Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Arise, Cognitive Therapy

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• A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Moving, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Men, Yield, Doe

  R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.138, The Overlook Press

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• Compromise is just a fancy term for losing.

  Megan Smith

  Losing, Compromise, Term

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• I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

  Dylan Moran

  Trams, Trousers

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• I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Trying, Clarity

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.141, Open Road Media

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