Quotes with obeys

  • Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
  • The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
  • To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

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  • Henry Miller A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • C. S. Lewis Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Paul De Man Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • James Thomson More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • C. S. Lewis Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
    The Screwtape Letters (1942)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Roux Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Amy Hempel They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
    Rick Moody (2007) 32
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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