Springs Quotes

• Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so the judgment might be attributed to the will and not to knowledge, which by its nature is cold.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Knowledge
  • Judgment
  • Springs

• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Poetry

• It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

  

  Confucius
  • Root
  • Neglected
  • Springs

• Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.

  

  Plato
  • Good
  • Helping
  • Springs

• Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Teach
  • Springs
  • Simple Things

• A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Editors
  • Springs
  • Estate

• One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn't exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • Mind
  • Gigs
  • Springs

• Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Earth
  • Growing
  • Sin

• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

  

  Brian May Queen
  • Interesting
  • Bicycle
  • Springs

• Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Creates
  • Springs
  • Self-transmutative

• There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

  

  Confucius
  • Flower
  • Cases
  • Produced

• For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Earth
  • Sorrow
  • Joyful

• The fairest harmony springs from discord.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Harmony
  • Springs
  • Discord

• A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Business
  • Sea
  • Stars

• What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Weakness
  • Springs

• My 33rd springs to mind. We were in Omaha, NE, playing in the round with the whole place singing 'Happy Birthday' - I felt like I was standing on a huge birthday cake. Very weird.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Singing
  • Springs
  • Birthday Cake

• True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

  

  Confucius
  • Men
  • Goodness
  • Springs

• Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Flowers
  • Springs
  • Flings

• It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Lose

• You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Bells
  • Springs
  • Fresh Water

• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Remembered
  • Springs
  • Blossoming

• The concept of absolute, hence or whence springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought or mind in the field of science. ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

  

  African Spir
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Govern

• There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Life
  • Gentle
  • Speaks

• The boundaries between you and not-you — what lies beyond your skin — relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others — really see them, wholeheartedly — springs open.

  

  Barbara Fredrickson
  • Relax
  • Boundaries
  • Distinctions

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