๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,736 quotes from great books

"To correctly interpret the fossil deposits of the Pleistocene, the paleontologist must work hand in hand with the geologist and the climatologist."
โ€” Collected papersby James W. Gidley
"Fair seed-time had my soul, like I was fostered even by beauty and by fear."
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"A motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of all thought, and rolls through all things."
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought, and giv'st to forms and images a breath and everlasting motion..."
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"The mind of man is framed even like the breath and harmony of music."
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!"
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"Imaginationโ€”here the Power so called through sad incompetence of human speech, that awful power rose from the mind's abyss."
โ€” The Preludeby William Wordsworth
"A man's sense of self is defined through his ability to achieve results. He is fulfilled through success and competence."
โ€” Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venusby John Gray
"When a man withdraws into his cave, he is simply trying to cope with his stress by forgetting about problems for a while, not because he doesn't care."
โ€” Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venusby John Gray
"Love is magical, and it can last, if we remember our differences. By respecting and accepting our differences, we can give our relationships the love they need to thrive."
โ€” Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venusby John Gray
"It was about understanding horses, sure, but even more it was about understanding ourselves."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"You can't fix what's broken inside a creature by force. You have to listen, and then you have to earn their trust back piece by piece."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"Grace is something you have to find in the quiet spaces, when all the noise of the world finally shuts up."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"There are some wounds that never entirely close, no matter how much time passes. You just learn to live around the scar."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"To truly help another soul, you have to be willing to let go of your own defenses and let them see your fear."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"We spend so much of our lives trying to tame the wild things, forgetting that it's the wildness in them that makes them beautiful."
โ€” The Horse Whispererby Nicholas Evans
"I would prefer not to."
โ€” Bartleby, The Scrivenerby Herman Melville
"Ah, humanity! existing just beneath the utmost Ulcer of melancholy."
โ€” Bartleby, The Scrivenerby Herman Melville
"It was not that I reined him in, or administered any painful rebuke; it was all together from an innate modesty, befitting merit greater than his."
โ€” Bartleby, The Scrivenerby Herman Melville
"Dead letters! does it not sound like dead men? Conceive a man by office filled with dead letters, and sadder than either."
โ€” Bartleby, The Scrivenerby Herman Melville