Admixture Quotes

#1. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!

Obafemi Awolowo

#2. A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

Saint Augustine

#3. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The questions most furiously discussed are those which have in them a basis of truth, and yet a large admixture of errors. We inconsiderately take hold of, and mistakingly support or oppose them, as either wholly true or wholly false.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. The institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of the more laborious forms of statistical and field work.

Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod

#6. Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

Richard B. Garnett

#7. Fermentation is the exhalation of a substance through the admixture of a ferment which, by virtue of its spirit, penetrates the mass and transforms it into its own nature.

Andreas Libavius

#8. We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

Arthur Hailey

#9. If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#10. In other words, he stands for both a phenotypical and a multivalent cultural admixture.

Fiona I.B. Ngo

#11. War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#12. War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#13. For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.

Confucius

#14. I now saw plainly that this foul emanation could have no admixture or connection whatsoever with the clean air of the Libyan Desert, but must be essentially a thing vomited from sinister gulfs still lower down.

H.P. Lovecraft

#15. From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

Eyvind Johnson

#16. Every great genius has an admixture of madness.

Aristotle.

#17. People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Danielle Steel

#18. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless

#19. Then Gregory lowered his voice, suddenly serious. "But it looks like we got to do it the hard way, and stay down here, and educate them.

Howard Zinn

#20. If we knew how our body is made, we wouldn't dare move.

Gustave Flaubert

#21. I'm lucky that people feel comfortable sharing things with me.

Alison Rosen

#22. Time is a long long long time before the dawn - Crosby, Stills & Nash

Ricky Stahl