Quotes with float

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  • Natalie Clifford Barney There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Bill Hybels Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • David Hume Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men,
    the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bernard De Voto It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
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  • John Updike Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don't float.' She put me in a balloon and then pricked it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • W. C. Fields Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • John Locke Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • David Cronenberg When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Audre Lorde You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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