Infinite Quotes - Page 9

• The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Soul, Covetousness

  Ben Jonson (1875). “The works of Ben Jonson, with notes, and a biogr. memoir, by W. Gifford. With intr. and appendices by F. Cunningham”, p.42

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• I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

  Alfred de Musset

  Ideas, Helping, Torment

  'Premiéres Poèsies' 'L'Espoir en Dieu'

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• It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York; it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, New York, Hate

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Infinite riches in a little room.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Littles, Riches, Rooms

  'The Jew of Malta' (c.1592) act 1, sc. 1

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• Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

  Paul Gauguin

  Firsts, Finishing, Details

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Gauguin's Intimate Journals”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Flaubert had infinite correction to perform.

  Roland Barthes

  Corrections

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• If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Proof, Found, Very Good

  Thomas Merton (1948). “Figures for an apocalypse”

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• The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Possibility, Combination

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1932.

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• The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Numbers, Gallery, Universe

  "The Library of Babel" (1941) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  God, Soul, Mind

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.555, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

  Meher Baba

  Forget Everything, Ego, Too Much

  Meher Baba (1972). “The Answer: Conversations with Meher Baba”

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• Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions.

  Ramakrishna

  Journey, Path, Opinion

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

  Damien Hirst

  Nuts, Possibility, Used

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• A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Numbers, Quality

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.101, Harvard University Press

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• Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Uplifting, Hands, Heaven

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• Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Hard Work, Law, Creative

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• Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Community, Progress, Needs

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• The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

  Tom Hanks

  Powerful, Individuality, Universe

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• I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Father, Believe

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• Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Mad, Growth

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• Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Distance, Artist, Perspective

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• Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've been thinkin' 'bout the meaning of resistance of a world beyond our own and suddenly the infinite and penitent began to look like home.

  Jon Foreman

  Stars, Pain, Home

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• There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.

  David Travis

  Light, Imagination, Darkness

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• Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.

  Geoff Johns

  Fall, Character, Focus

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• There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

  Eric Maisel

  Numbers, Creative, Rewards

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.223, Penguin

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