Lurking Quotes

• There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

  Richard O'Brien

  Mind, Shadow

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• The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Evil, Doubt

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sports, Foundation

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• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Challenges, World, Source

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• Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Firsts, Hills, Higher

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• You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Cosmos, Remarkable, Objects

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• There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

  Arianna Huffington

  Love, Kids, Literature

  "Arianna Huffington's Best Advice". www.harpersbazaar.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

  Russell Hoban

  Men, Thinking, Differences

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.65, A&C Black

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• The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

  Ernest Istook

  School, Kids, Parent

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• But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Land, Waiting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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• My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Memories, Children, Father

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking.

  Tupac Shakur

  Evil, I Can

  Song: Me Against the World

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• The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

  Jack London

  Stills

  Jack London (1992). “The Call of the Wild and White Fang”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's a snake lurking in the grass.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Snakes, Grass

  Eclogues, 3.93.

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• I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Oysters, Knives, Black History

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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• What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Ocean, Sleep

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• Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

  Wes Fesler

  Boys, May, Irony

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• Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Known, Meant To Be

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.261, Macmillan

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• My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Uplifting, Nature, Opera

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Morning, Exercise

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.583, Wordsworth Editions

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• What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Sound, Curious

  Walt Whitman, William White (2007). “Daybooks and Notebooks, Volume III: Diary in Canada, Notebooks, Index”, p.732, NYU Press

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• How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Lying, Ocean

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

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• You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It has been like in the past, it is like that in the present, and I hope it will be in the future. Here is a great imaginative project, to build a machine with twice the speed and twice the height of any existing machine in the world. We all went into it with our eyes wide open. We were conscious of the dangers that were lurking in the unknown. We did not know what fate was going to hold out for us in the future.

  John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara

  Eye, Fate, Past

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• Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.

  Carlos Wilcox

  Satan, Wells, Opening

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• In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Numbers, Atheism, Leeches

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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