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• Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Earthquakes, Soul

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a radiance of sifted sunlight streaming through a birch tree. 'Only with shape and features of course. I like to fancy souls as being made of light. And some are all shot through with rosy stains and quivers…and some have a soft glitter like moonlight on the sea…and some are pale and transparent like mist at dawn.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Light, Sea

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.332, e-artnow

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• The naked earth is warm with Spring,
  And with green grass and bursting trees
  Leans to the sun's kiss glorying,
  And quivers in the sunny breeze.

  Julian Grenfell

  Spring, Kissing, Tree

  The Times 28 May 1915 "Into Battle"

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• In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Men, Order

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• She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Husband, Character

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.180

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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• Do you recall that night in June
  Do you recall that night in June
  Upon the Danube River;
  We listened to the ländler-tune,
  We watched the moonbeams quiver.

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Summer, Night, June

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and my lips quiver as I stare at myown body. I don't break eye contact until I blow my load. Not once do I actually touch myself.

  Zach Braff

  Morning, Eye, Blow

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• Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

  Andrei Sinyavsky

  Smile, Hands, Looks

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• How to sustain the miracle
  Of being, that like a muted bell,
  Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
  Quivers, intense and still?

  Babette Deutsch

  Ocean, Breathing, Miracle

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

  Kalisha Buckhanon

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Kalisha Buckhanon (2008). “Conception: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Scare, Pants

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• I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

  Leif Enger

  Air, Gold, October

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.40, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

  Mark Twain

  Joy, Looks, Alive

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories”, p.125, Penguin

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• Patch stood over me, and a drop of rain slid from his hair, landing like ice on my collarbone. I felt it slide along my skin, disappearing beneath the neckline of my shirt. His eyes followed the raindrop, and I began to quiver on the inside.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Eye, Hair

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Nice, Air, Broken

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.428, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.

  Charlie Huston

  Real, Believe, Dark

  Charlie Huston (2009). “My Dead Body: A Novel”, p.45, Del Rey

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• I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Beauty, Looks, Flesh

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• love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Moving, Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

  John Green

  Hate, Smart, Air

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.125, Penguin

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• If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?

  Isak Dinesen

  Song, Children, Lying

  "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.

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• For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Roots, Growth, Crowns

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  Ellen G. White

  Jesus, Law, Names

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• Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.

  Albert Camus

  Honesty, Speak

  "Notebooks, 1951-1959".

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