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Letter "V" » vague
«All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.»
Author: Charles Sanders Peirce
(Astronomer, Inventor, Logician, Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist, Writer)
| Keywords:
definite, evolution, proceeds, vague
«For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.»
Author: George Ade
(Journalist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
generalities, generality, saver, savers, vague
«Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas»
«I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.»
Author: Havelock Ellis
| Keywords:
Angel, fallen, fallen angel, fight back, musicians, perpetually, Satan, seeking, the darkness, vague
«And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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«Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Courtship
| Keywords:
alarm, attentions, courtship, pointed, vague
«I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.»
«It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.»
«Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
conformity, passively, recognized, The Natural, vague
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