Hints Quotes

• Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Retirement, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.39, Publishdrive

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• A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Trying, Use

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.734, Delphi Classics

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• We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Brother, Men, Littles

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• What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Acting, Good Book

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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• Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

  Anthony Hecht

  Dark, Secret, Suggestions

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• A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

  Russell Page

  Art, Eye, Imagination

  Russell Page (2010). “The Education of a Gardener”, p.84, Random House

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• A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Vision, Possibility, Leadership Vision

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• Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Failure, Spurs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.267, Penguin

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• When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

  Lewis Carroll

  Creativity, Men, Discovery

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.880, Delphi Classics

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• Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Mean, Gold

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

  Josiah Royce

  Glimpse, Life Is, Moments

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dream, Freedom, Eye

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• Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Crazy, Mad, Creation

  Said after studying the Ptolemaic system (attributed)

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• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  Ben Okri

  Perfection, Facts, Stories

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• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  Olivia Wilde

  Character, People, Alex

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• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Ocean, Light, Wind

  Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”

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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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• Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Moving On, Differences, Time To Move On

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.62, Vanderbilt University Press

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• I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

  John Woolman

  Writing, Years, Age

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

  Richard Lugar

  Reading, Thoughtful, Odds

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• The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

  Marton Csokas

  Lying, Animated Series, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  Lactantius

  Names, Heaven, Mountain

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

  Paul McCartney

  Marijuana, Japan, Withdrawal

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• It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

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