Top 26 A.e. Coppard Quotes

#1. There are men who love to gaze with the mind at things that can never be seen, feel at least the throb of a beauty that will never be known and hear over immense, bleak reaches the echo of that which is no celestial music but only their heart's vain cries.

A.E. Coppard

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#2. Holiness was always something richly dim.

A.E. Coppard

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#3. We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible.

Lewis H. Lapham

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#4. Blood is thicker than water, I know, but it's unnatural stuff to drink so much of. ("The Wife Of Ted Wickham")

A.E. Coppard

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#5. Humph,' he said, with a disagreeable air, 'the universe does its work very quietly.' ("The Bogey Man")

A.E. Coppard

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#6. A full lifer doesn't commit to anyone until they've committed to her

Deanna Kizis

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#7. A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

Mark Shuttleworth

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#8. We are dust only after all our water evaporates.

Anthony Doerr

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#9. To analyze or assess a person's failings or deficiencies,' he declared to himself, 'is useless, not because such blemishes are immovable, but because they affect the mass of beholders in diverse ways. Different minds perceive utterly variant figures in the same being.

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#10. Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. ("The Higgler")

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#11. He asked with a stiff smile 'What is love?'
For me,' said Orianda, fumbling for a definition, 'for me it is a compound of anticipation and gratitude. When either of these two ingredients is absent love is dead.

A.E. Coppard

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#12. If he was not exactly a Spartan, he was, you might say, spartanatical. Things happened to you; they were good,or they were bad - and that was the truth about everything.

A.E. Coppard

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#13. This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#14. No countryman ever speaks to an animal without blaspheming it, although if he be engaged in some solitary work and inspired to music, he invariably sings a hymn in a voice that seems to have some vague association with wood pulp.

A.E. Coppard

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#15. Making love, sensing how he felt about her in the high tide of passion, seeing herself through his eyes, brought her to an ecstasy beyond words.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#16. diamond bow and set of arrows

Mark Mulle

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#17. To be far from the madding crowd is to be mad indeed.

A.E. Coppard

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#18. The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life - that was what life demanded of you - surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin-deep love that exacted remorseless penalties.

A.E. Coppard

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#19. The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.

Seal

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#20. A sermon should be like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep your attention.

J. Golden Kimball

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#21. Look. Studies show FEAR sets attitudes/tolerance to change. Fearful people reject foreign, alien, strange. Circle wagons. Pull in horizons. Horizons of time. Of tolerance. Of risk. Of Dreams.

David Brin

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#22. I hate to say it, but because of humanity's capitalistic nature, money is important.

Chris Hardwick

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#23. Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon.

Ronel Van Tonder

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#24. What difference is there in the color of the soul?

Solomon Northup

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#25. Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

A.E. Coppard

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#26. Folly? O, it was indeed! But Folly is a prison where no charter of deliverence ever comes.

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