Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.

Leonardo da Vinci

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
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  • You
  • Simple

• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
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• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
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• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • True

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Runner
  • Weekends

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Train
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• The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Needs
  • Everyone
  • Earn

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
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• Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Long
  • Live
  • War

• I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
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  • Farm

• I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games very often, the big social occasions.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Very

• There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Reality

• Caminante, son tus huellasel camino, y nada más;caminante, no hay camino,se hace camino al andar.Al andar se hace camino,y al volver la vista atrásse ve la senda que nuncase ha de volver a pisar.Caminante, no hay camino,sino estelas en la mar.

  

  Antonio Machado
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• We have a lot to learn from everyone.

  

  Adrian Grenier

• Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • People
  • Today
  • Environment

• I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Gay

• It is always the under side of the branches of any plant that show themselves to the wind which strikes it, and one leans against the other.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Wind
  • Plant