| "We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper." »James Carroll |
| "There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things." »Robert Lynd |
| "Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." »Robert Frost |
| "The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman |
| "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." »Randolph Bourne |
| "Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath." »Michael Caine |
| "Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." »G. K. Chesterton |
| "Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." »Jacob Braude |
| "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung |
| "Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface." »Aldous Huxley |
| "A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession." »Isaac Watts |
| "Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "He who knows the surface of the earth and the topography of a country only through the examination of maps..is like a man who learns the opera of Meyerbeer or Rossini by reading only reviews in the newspapers. The brush of landscape artists Lorrain, Ruysdael, or Calame can reproduce on canvas the sun's ray, the coolness of the heavens, the green of the fields, the majesty of the mountains...but what can never be stolen from Nature is that vivid impression that she alone can and knows how to impart--the music of the birds, the movement of the trees, the aroma peculiar to the place--the inexplicable something the traveller feels that cannot be defined and which seems to awaken in him distant memories of happy days, sorrows and joys gone by, never to return!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
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