Quotes with lurking

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• Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

  David Grayson
  American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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• It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.

  Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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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
  American writer (1925 - 2011)
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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
  American writer (1902 - 1983)
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• There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.

  Carl Sagan
  American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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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
  Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• considerable
• cowardliness
• ineradicable
• themselves
• suspicious
• formidable

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