Immense Quotes - Page 7

• I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Years, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.242, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

  Wilkie Collins

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

  Wilkie Collins (2013). “The Woman in White”, p.475, Courier Corporation

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• The whole world is one immense woman, and we are in her very womb, we are not yet born, we are joyfully ripening.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  World, Born, Ripening

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2010). “We: Introduction by Will Self”, p.64, Random House

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• There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

  Saul Bellow

  Who We Are, Life Is, Longing

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Numbers, Matter, Influential

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• The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is immense. We send starships. We fall in love.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, World, Probability

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• If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Heart, Happy Life

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• The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again. . . . The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work.

  Martin Wolf

  Data, Risk, Doubt

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• Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

  George Meredith

  Done, Enjoy, Incurring

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.473, Library of Alexandria

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• Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.

  Sara Seager

  People, Curiosity, Matter

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• In the immense cathedral which is the universe of God, each person, whether scholar or manual laborer, is called to act as the priest of his whole life--to take all that is human, and to turn it into an offering and a hymn of glory.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Hymns, Offering, Glory

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• I put myself under immense pressure.

  Jaime Winstone

  Pressure

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects around him, his occupations, his habits, have a sacred character. It is he who feeds the family, is the one in charge and the head. Usually he works outside the home, and it is through him that the household communicates with the rest of the world: he is the embodiment of this adventurous, immense, difficult, and marvelous world; he is transcendence, he is God.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Father, Home, Character

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• The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Errors, Mass

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• An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Found, Percentages

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Book of Snobs”, p.4, Booklassic

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• The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Lying, Men

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• Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

  Honore de Balzac

  Blow, Wind, Mobility

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• I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

  Joseph Addison

  Ocean, Noble

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.105

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• How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created?

  Joseph Addison

  Fall, Men, Perfection

  Joseph Addison (1842). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.171

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• Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Responsibility, Men, Debt

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• Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Lying, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.197, Shambhala Publications

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• It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

  Megan Fox

  Pressure, Amount

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• And if the problem [with contraception] is promiscuity, then why does the immense popularity of Viagra go unchecked? Doesn't it make more sense to leave the bullets out of the gun than to try to avoid being shot? Especially when the gun is an old musket, and you have to clean it out and tamp down gunpowder, melt down scraps of lead and pour it into a mold, wait for it to cool - only to have it take forever to finally go off?

  Margaret Cho

  Gun, Waiting, Forever

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• When you've done all you can, do just a little bit more. Any extra effort you make will draw immense leverage from all the ordinary efforts which have preceded it. That can be powerful and effective.

  Ralph Marston

  Motivation, Powerful, Effort

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• Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.

  Theodore Tilton

  Book, Lectures, Journalism

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