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«When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.»
Author: Georgia O'Keeffe
(Painter)
| Keywords:
city, flower, for the moment, In the City, no Time, rush, rush out, Someone else, The City
«... if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.»
Author: Ivan Turgenev
| Keywords:
for the moment
«We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.»
Author: Orson Welles
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Loneliness,
Love
| Keywords:
alone, Born, create, for the moment, illusion
«My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.»
«Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
appetite, forbidden, for the moment, poisoned, satisfy, sinful
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
«The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, conclusion, conclusions, dogmatically, for the moment, open-minded, Open Mind, reasonable, snap, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, utmost
«Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
any, called, call at, call out, call up, content, contenting, For the, for the moment, in and of itself, Itself, material, merely, moment, not for, so-called, spirit, spirited, spiriting, spirit up, symbol, The Calling, thing, thing in itself, want
«It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
constitutes, disbelief, for the moment, in suspension, poetic, suspension, suspension of disbelief
«Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Lovers
| Keywords:
as it were, blend, blending, blends, blend in, breathe, creep, earthly, earthly life, for the moment, longs, mystic, mystics, whisper
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