Great short quotes - Page 223

Boris Pasternak

What is laid down, ordered, factual…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Great short quote and quotation by: Boris Pasternak ,

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What is left when honor is lost?…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is left when honor is lost? Great short quote and quotation by: Publilius Syrus , (~100 BC)

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

What is life? An illusion, a shadow…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Great short quote and quotation by: Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream ,

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Crowfoot

What is life? It is a flash of a fi…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. Great short quote and quotation by: Crowfoot ,

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William Wharton

What is love? As far as I can tell,…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven. Great short quote and quotation by: William Wharton ,

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Alfred North Whitehead

What is morality in any given time …

15 Feb , 2011  

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. Great short quote and quotation by: Alfred North Whitehead , English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

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Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more mortifying than to fee…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? Great short quote and quotation by: Logan Pearsall Smith , (1865 – 1946)

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Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966

What is most beautiful in virile me…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Great short quote and quotation by: Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966 , US author & critic (1933 – )

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is needed, rather than running…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. Great short quote and quotation by: Jiddu Krishnamurti ,

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not fully understood is not…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is not fully understood is not possessed. Great short quote and quotation by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 – 1832)

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Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose

What is not nailed down is mine. An…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down. Great short quote and quotation by: Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose ,

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Blake

What is now proved was only once im…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is now proved was only once imagined. Great short quote and quotation by: Blake ,

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