Will O The Wisp Quotes

#1. We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person

John Gerstner

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Amor Towles

#3. Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

Rene Dubos

#4. If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Financial " synergy " is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

Peter Drucker

#7. Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life ...

Adolf Hitler

#8. A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

Theodore Dreiser

#9. Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#10. An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real
it is a passing will o' the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts

Nigel Hey

#11. If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.

Alan W. Watts

#12. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.

Bram Stoker

#13. Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And in your lonely flight,Haven't you heard the music in the night,Wonderful music,Faint as a will-o-the-wisp,Crazy as a loon,Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon.

Johnny Mercer

#14. You're not worried about principles."Gabriel leaned closer, crowding her gently back against the column. His taunting whisper curled in her right ear like a wisp of smoke. "You're worried that you might do something naughty with me and enjoy it.

Lisa Kleypas

#15. Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him.
People of Sparks

Jeanne DuPrau

#16. As my muscles marginally relax, the tension flicks from anger to fevered desire. I want to tear each wisp of clothing off her and tie her to this f**king desk. I'll know next time, to bring my satin ribbon.

M.R. Field

#17. Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

Gerald Durrell

#18. One time, when I was in a hide in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell three metres to the ground, landing on my back. It was as if the impact had knocked every wisp of air from my lungs, and I lay there struggling to inhale, to exhale, to do anything. That

Suzanne Collins

#19. I can see how I am always in perpetual motion through time, how I can never stop, obsessed with the past, projecting myself into the future, clutching at and always failing to grasp the wisp of now.

Charles Yu

#20. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought,

Margaret Mitchell

#21. So it was that when a fiery wisp of a girl presented herself before an adroit, much older man of the world, credit for the seduction fell to her.

Stacy Schiff

#22. How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

Leigh Newman

#23. Gone, a wisp of smoke, nothing more. Katherine stepped forward, a quick step.

Mark Lawrence

#24. I learned a long time ago writing does soothe the soul. Our deepest feelings grasp our hands and as fast as you think of it your utmost feelings is in plain view. "A wisp of a thought brought to life.

Darlene Cruz

#25. A little wisp of soul carrying a corpse." - Epictetus.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies
in summer skies, she wondered if she was in love with him again.

Nicholas Sparks

#27. There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Vincent Van Gogh

#28. But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.

Alexandra Bracken

#29. Many a young wizard has tried to read a grimoire that is too strong for him, and people who've heard the screams have found only his pointy shoes with the classic wisp of smoke coming out of them and a book which is, perhaps, just a little fatter.

Terry Pratchett

#30. A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

Vincent Van Gogh

#31. A smile like a small wisp of smoke drifting quietly skyward on a windless day.

Haruki Murakami

#32. What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.

Tom Robbins

#33. A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.

Francois Rabelais

#34. If I could turn into a wisp of smoke, I could slip into them and disappear.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#35. If ever he had a moment's doubt that he would love and admire her forever, no matter whether she chose him or not, that doubt faded away like a wisp of smoke.

Sylvain Reynard

#36. In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.

Ted Hughes

#37. When a wisp of fog blew by her she laughed and reached out her hands to it. When the wind blew she turned to it and opened her bodice, letting it caress and kiss her breasts, for she never knew when it might be him, and still she wanted nothing more than to please him utterly.

Elliot Mabeuse

#38. From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came,

H.P. Lovecraft

#39. I started to feel as though I were disappearing. Perhaps I myself was figment of my own imagination, a storm cloud, a wisp of smoke, a burning ember.

Alice Hoffman

#40. the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air.

Daphne Du Maurier

#41. Veek clutched her blocky pistol in both hands. A tiny wisp of smoke slipped out of the barrel, thinned, and vanished. The smell of powder wafted around her.

Peter Clines

#42. He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#43. Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect.

George R R Martin

#44. Van Helsing more than sensed the coming alive of the undead creature trapped inside the icy coffin. He saw it now. Seeping from a bad seal between compartments, a wisp of fucking smoke.

Robert W. Walker

#45. You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

David Wong

#46. The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!

Hope Mirrlees

#47. Unless, unless, unless--a wisp of a word, ghostly token of altered fate, bleating little iamb of hope, it drifts across my thoughts like a floater in the vitreous humour of an eye. Mere hope.

Ian McEwan

#48. Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#49. For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them and all three turned toward it, toward the wood.

Natalie Babbitt

#50. Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

Jethro Tull

#51. If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

Dean Koontz

#52. I'm a man of stone - and my hands are not soft enough to brush away, each stray wisp of hair

John Geddes

#53. 17. Butterfly
A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#54. The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

Cormac McCarthy

#55. Scuse me, lady, but I'm Wisp, 'cause that's all I am, a wisp of a thing, not much good for changing a thing in the world, said the boy for when he stepped inside, the light from the grimy window gave her a good view of his anxious, pointed little face.

Anne McCaffrey

#56. mansion that sits upon a hill just outside the sleepy little

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