Top 18 Unplumbed Quotes
#1. One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree.
Gautama Buddha
#2. The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard Aiken
#4. From what black wells of Acherontic fear or feeling, from what unplumbed gulfs of extra-cosmic consciousness or obscure, long-latent heredity, were those half-articulate thunder-croakings drawn?
H.P. Lovecraft
#5. Fish had already told both Wertham and Detective King that, in addition to shoving needles inside his body, he liked to soak pieces of cotton in alcohol, cram them up his rectum, and set fire to them.
Harold Schechter
#6. Be peace, don't just talk about it.
Nhat Hanh
#7. On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
Tom Lehrer
#8. Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
Eric Hoffer
#9. I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.
Ismail Haniyeh
#10. When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't never give it up yet. I still think it could be done, perpetual motion. I had a vision of a un resist able windmill.
Howard Finster
#11. It is not miracles that bring a realist to faith. A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles as well, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. Poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
Vernon Lee
#13. No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
Thomas Sowell
#15. So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.
Robert Redford
#16. We have a problem; it is because we have not risen as high has he desires
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Because everyone in the world has the power to edit, Wikipedia has long been plagued by the so-called edit war. This is like a house where the husband wants it warm and the wife wants it cool and they sneak back and forth adjusting the thermostat at cross purposes.
James Gleick
#18. Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was.
Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed.
Neil Gaiman