Quotes of Indefinite - somelinesforyou

“ Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ”

- De Witt Clinton

“ While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with is the indefinite. ”

- Eric Butterworth

“ Music fills the infinite between two souls. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. ”

- Lao tzu

“ I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face. ”

- Bruce Springsteen

“ If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. ”

- Charles Gordon

“ To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Infinite riches in a little room. ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. ”

- Ernest Thompson Seton

“ The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. ”

- Emma Goldman

“ Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth. ”

- Thorstein Veblen

“ The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty — of the indefinite expansion of possibility. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. ”

- Charles M. Schwab

“ The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ Law is a bottomless pit. ”

- John Arbuthnot

“ Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ”

- George Bancroft

“ Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. ”

- Unknown

“ For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ”

- George Ade

“ The power of imagination makes us infinite. ”

- John Muir

“ Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. ”

- William Pitt Chatham
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