Quotes with subdued

  • It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

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  • Beatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Jean Rostand Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Allen Tate Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Shakespeare My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Seneca No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barbara Amiel Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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