In unremarkable texts we soon trip on phrases that penetrate into us, as if a sword has thrust up to its hilt inside us.
– Nicols Gmez Dvila
Related Quotes:
- Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
- The simplistic ideas in which the unbeliever ends up believing are his punishment. – Nicols Gmez
- Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you. – Nicolas Bouvier
- As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything. – David Levithan
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- Whatever role you play, play it to the hilt. – Lynn Flewelling
- Be the hero of your own life story. Live to the hilt. – Sravani Saha Nakhro
- You leave home, I have learned, counting the trip day by day. If you ever get to return, you count the trip miracle by miracle. – Gregory Maguire
- Regret, albeit raw and relentless, is almost always unremarkable. – Kris Kidd
- The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
- This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost…and you are that sword. – S Alexander OKeefe
- Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth. – Tyrean Martinson
- The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you’re holding a pen and the other guy’s holding a sword. – Dave Besseling
- Shed not recklessly the blood of another with thy sword,Lest the Sword on High falls upon thy neck. – Guru Gobind Singh
- All human beings wield influence-”a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care. – Richelle E Goodrich
- If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time. – Elif Shafak
- Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I can’t protect you without holding a sword. I can’t embrace you while holding a sword. – Tite Kubo
- A bolt that raised her heart to blazing heightAnd made the vertical the very thrust of hope,And found its path at last(Slow work of Grace). – May Sarton
- The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when. – Idries Shah
- learning texts is worth doing not because it’s easy but because it’s hard. – Joshua Foer
- The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking – Dmitry Dyatlov
- Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire’s plays! – Dan Abnett
- Jewish texts compare the knowable universe to the size of a mustard seed. Similar association between God and man made in Quran, Buddhism. – Sudhir Ahluwalia
- We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.-¨ – Dark Jar Tin Zoo
- Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories. – Michael Ray Smith
- Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable. – Gregory of Nyssa
- we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced. – Arthur W Pink
- Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness. – Elizabeth Goudge