Plunge Quotes - Page 5

• But I,
  from poetry's skies,
  plunge into communism,
  because
  without it
  I feel no love.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sky, Communism, Feels

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1975). “Klop, Stikhi, Poėmy”, p.36, Indiana University Press

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• Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

  Edward Bellamy

  Race, Illustration, Civilization

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, p.27, Edward Bellamy

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• THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

  William Carlos Williams

  Heart, Dark, Night

  Ian D. Copestake, William Carlos Williams (2004). “Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams”, p.100, Peter Lang

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• The snow has left the cottage top;
  The thatch moss grows in brighter green;
  And eaves in quick succession drop,
  Where grinning icicles have been,
  Pit-patting with a pleasant noise
  In tubs set by the cottage door;
  While duck and geese, with happy joys,
  Plunge in the yard pond brimming over.
  The sun peeps through the window pane:
  Which children mark with laughing eye,
  And in the wet street steal again
  To tell each other spring is night.

  John Clare

  Children, Spring, Eye

  John Clare (1827). “The Shepherd's Calendar: With Village Stories and Other Poems”, p.20

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• The feeling of love is measured by the extent of missing the feverish state in which the absence of the other plunges us

  Francine Noel

  Missing You, Love Is, Feelings

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• Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

  Kimberly Johnson

  Love, Husband, Thinking

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• To rid the grass of weed, to get
  The whole root,
  Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind
  
  And desire - to make clean, make pure.
  The weed, tough
  As the rock it leaps against,
  
  Unless plucked to the last
  Live fiber
  Will plunge up through dark again.
  
  The weed also has the desire
  To make clean,
  Make pure, there against the rock.

  Lucien Stryk

  Weed, Strong, Dark

  Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

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• Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the
  choice is mine.
  I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.
  I am grace.
  I plunge in the knife.
  This is my sacrifice--
  I am the monster.

  Bree Despain

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

  Danny Wallace

  Regret, Mistake, Moving

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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• From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Symphony, Insightful, Triumph

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• He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Steps

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• The warrior of light plunges unhesitatingly into the river of passions always flowing through his life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Passion

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• Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Forever, Saint, Moments

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• Plunge into the truth, find out who the Teacher is, Believe in the Great Sound!

  Kabir

  Teacher, Believe, Sound

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

  Henri Matisse

  Hands, Color, Moments

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• You'll note that politicians no longer spend money, they invest it. Don't worry about paying more to the [IRS]. You aren't being taxed; you're taking a plunge on a fly-by-night stock issue.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Night, Issues, Worry

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Song, Knowledge, Darkness

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.870, Ballantine Books

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• Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Winning, Men

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• The progressive Left can be in favor of Big Government or population control but not both. The mutual incompatibility is about to plunge Europe into societal collapse. There is no precedent in human history for economic growth on declining human capital - and that's before anyone invented unsustainable welfare systems.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Europe, Growth

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.3, Regnery Publishing

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• Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

  Giambattista Vico

  Mind, Poetic, Faculty

  Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”

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• Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Scripture, Fountain

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• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Ocean, Order

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• Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge.

  Robert Browning

  Adventure, Two, Preparation

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• We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Home, Hands

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• If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.

  Wilfrid Noyce

  Ocean, Adventure, Men

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