Quotes of Freshness - somelinesforyou

“ There's no freshness. There's no originality. ”

- Joe Keenan

“ The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ All will come out in the washing. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking. ”

- Shania Twain

“ Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. ”

- Ralph Nader

“ When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. ”

- Brian Moore

“ There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book — I call that vicious! ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! ”

- May Sarton

“ A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. ”

- Ezra

“ I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ”

- Jessica Simpson

“ Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ”

- Samuel Ullman

“ There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing… … ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ There is no Gain in the world: so be it: but neither is there any Loss. There is never any failure to this infinite freshness of life, and the ancient novelty is forever renewed. We realize the world better if we imagine it, not as a Progress to Prim Perfection, but as the sustained upleaping of a Fountain, the pillar of a Glorious Flame… ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second. ”

- Eleanor Clark

“ I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn. ”

- John Muir

“ When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Their manners, speech, dress, friendships — the freshness and candor of their physiognomy — the picturesque looseness of their carriage — their deathless attachment to freedom — their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean — the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states — the fierceness of their roused resentment — their curiosity and welcome of novelty — their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy — their susceptibility to a slight — the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors — the fluency of their speech — their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul — their good temper and open-handedness — the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him — these too are unrhymed poetry… ”

- Walt Whitman
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