Trembling Quotes

• Love is trembling happiness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Beautiful, Tree, World

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Time, Godly

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp

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• In art one idea is as good as another.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Ideas

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.14, The Museum of Modern Art

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• No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Enjoy

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• A tear that trembles for a little while
  Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
  Wavers within its circle like a dream,
  Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
  Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Dream, Circles, Tears

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

  T. E. Brown

  Patience, Mother, Sweet

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• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

  Andre Gide

  Nature, Literature, Gifted

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• I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

  Hermann Hesse

  Second Chance, Doors, Bed

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• It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mistake, Slave, Masters

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Hope, Birth, Hairballs

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• The independent girl is a person before whose wrath only the most rash dare stand, and, they, it must be confessed, with much fear and trembling.

  Lou Henry Hoover

  Girl, Independent, Wrath

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• All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Book, Eras, Periods

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

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• In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Ideas, Instance

  Willem De Kooning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1969). “Willem de Kooning”

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• If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

  Virginia Woolf

  Adventure, Doubt, Goats

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

  Jock Sturges

  Looks, Arms, Pants

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• You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.161, Penguin

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• Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kings, Fear, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• ...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Simple, Air

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• The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice Of God, Liberty, Conviction

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.17, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,
  And tender broken voice that fills
  With ravishment the listening hours,--
  Whisperings, wooings,
  Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
  In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
  Dark the night
  Yet is she bright,
  For in her dark she brings the mystic star,
  Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,
  From some unknown afar.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Stars, Flower

  George Eliot (19??). “The Complete Works of George Eliot in Eighteen Volumes: Poems”

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• I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Country, War

  Notes on the State of Virginia, query 18 (1781 - 1785)

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• Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

  Phillips Brooks

  Character, Long, Made

  Phillips Brooks (1906). “The More Abundant Life: Lenten Readings”

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• He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crush, Running, Dog

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.138, Pan Macmillan

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• My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Patriotic, Heart

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