#utter

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#first #fluttering #holier #life #love

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#action #been #few #foolish #many

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. ↗

— George McGovern

#anything #disaster #good #hard #i

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#find #image #just #photographs #portrait

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast. ↗

— Max Muller

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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? ↗

— Max Muller

#chrysalis #dust #makes #sin #which

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#being #corrupt #corruption #down #i

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#comes #ends #finds #history #long