Quotes with spring-guns

Quotes 81 till 100 of 128.

  • Marquis de Sade She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Wyndham Lewis So-called ''austerity,'' the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. ''Pull in your belt'' is a slogan closely related to ''gird up your loins,'' or the guns-butter metaphor.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Jim Rohn Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Al Bernstein Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
    Al Bernstein
    American sportscaster, writer, stage performer and recording artist (1950 - )
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  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Robin Williams Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Charles Dickens Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Doug Larson Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Beth Orton Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Paul Valery The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Robertson Davies The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Ernest Hemingway The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • George Orwell The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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