Jules Verne Quotes
I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers of the Nautilus.
Jules Verne
Quotes to Explore
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Hymns are companions for life travelers.
Andy Griffith
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People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted
Claude C. Hopkins
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It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.
Epictetus
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The hard and stiff are death's companions. The soft and weak are life's companions.
Lao Tzu
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For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Worthy books
Are not companions – they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Philip James Bailey
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The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
Jules Verne
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I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.
John Ruskin
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You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.
Emily Dickinson
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Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
Al-Mutanabbi
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Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.
Dan Greenburg
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We had each journeyed to this office from our own distant planet of illness. Though strangers, we became instant, silent companions. We were here for the same purpose: to describe our alien experience to the doctor in hope of survival advice.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body.
Lao Tzu
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Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise Pascal
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If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable.
J. R. R. Tolkien
