Ploughshare Quotes

#1. Myriads of daisies have shone forth in flower Near the lark's nest, and in their natural hour Have passed away; less happy than the one That by the unwilling ploughshare died to prove The tender charm of poetry and love.

William Wordsworth

#2. O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.

Mortimer Collins

#3. But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.

Oswald Chambers

#6. I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress.

Thomas Mann

#7. Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation.

Edward Young

#8. ... Any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity...

Dean Koontz

#9. My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

Edith Wharton

#10. Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

Pierre Loti

#11. Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Joyce Brothers

#12. The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. Her heart beat hard in her chest, until she felt the echo of its pounding in every part of her.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.

Raheel Farooq

#15. The golden flower blooms if you are ready to die to the past, if you are utterly in the present. And you can be utterly in the present only if you have no desire to be anywhere else in the future, if you have no desire to be somebody else. This I call enlightenment.

Osho

#16. People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

Stewart Stafford

#17. There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

Alfred Stieglitz

#18. Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

John Cage

#19. The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#20. I ought to be able to invent words capable of blowing the odor of corpses in a direction other than straight into mine and the reader's face.

Franz Kafka