Pale Quotes - Page 24

• But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

  Camille Pissarro

  Art, Orange, Sentimental

  1883 Letter to his son Lucien.

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• If any pale student, glued to his desk, here seek an apology for a way of life whose natural fruits is that pallid and emasculate scholarship of which New England has had too many examples, it will be far better that this sketch had not been written. For the student there is, in its season, no better place than the saddle, and no better companion than the rifle or the oar.

  Francis Parkman

  Apology, Way, Fruit

  Francis Parkman (1960). “Letters of Francis Parkman”

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• God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

  Kenneth Rand

  Mirages, Faces, Life Is

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• Shall I, wasting in despair,Die because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care,'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flowery meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?

  George Wither

  Love, Despair, Care

  George Wither (1968). “The poetry of George Wither”, Ams Pr Inc

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• Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

  Flora Thompson

  Sunshine, Purple, Yellow

  Flora Thompson (1979). “A Country Calendar, and Other Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA

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  There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

  Bill Nye

  Race, Blue, Space

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Atheism, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.183

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• I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Summer, People, World

  "Not My Job: Jim Gaffigan Takes A Quiz On Gwyneth Paltrow". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 26, 2013.

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• You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

  Tim Finn

  Running, Hurt, Rain

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• It is the saints who know what being in love is all about. Earthly love pales by comparison.

  Thomas Dubay

  Being In Love, Love Is, Saint

  Thomas Dubay (1989). “Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel, on Prayer”, p.25, Ignatius Press

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• Every time I have to try on a wig for work, I get excited about the colour; I've often thought about going for a platinum bob or also raven black, as it looks so great against pale skin. But I always end up being loyal to my red colour.

  Lily Cole

  Pale Skin, Ravens, Black

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

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• Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.

  Horace

  Essence, Yesterday, Soul

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• Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
  [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas
  Regumque turres.]

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Towers

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• Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

  Horace

  Wall, Evil, Done

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• Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale
  And silent, settles into full revenge.

  John Tillotson

  Revenge, Anger, Storm

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• I'd like to be an original, to be myself and not a pale copy of anyone else.

  Julie Andrews

  Originality, Copies, Originals

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

  Anna Paquin

  Dark, Hair, Views

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• My mantra is, 'Don't be afraid of color.' What did it do to you? Do a color testing in alternate kinds of light you desire in the room because the pigment will change. And I refuse to believe that pale pale or white colors in a small room will buy you more square footage. Go with color all the way.

  Bryan Batt

  Believe, Squares, Light

  "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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• To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. Its more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.

  Bat for Lashes

  Artist, Unique, Way

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

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• Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

  John Updike

  Night, Together, Shade

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.102, Random House

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• Nothing in the world is like this-
  a bright white page with
  pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil
  the soft hush of it
  moving finally
  one day
  into letters.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Blue, White

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.136, Penguin

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• I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.

  Ken Buck

  Thinking, Issues, Choices

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