(345 quotes found)
“Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Michael Caine
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”
Andre Gide
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
Marquis De Sade
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below”
John Dryden
“Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.”
Colin Powell
“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession”
Isaac Watts
“The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.”
Jack Handy
“When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.”
Albert Einstein
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