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“If you keep feeling pricks of conscience during your work, you will always stay on its surface and will never be able to plunge deep inside it.”

Work Conscience Feeling Plunge Always Inside Stay Pricks Able Surface

Author:Dr Prem Jagyasi

“The most valuable treasure God has entrusted a shepherd with, is his sheep. No sheep is perfect but if shepherd despises them or adopts a scornful outlook for them then he has already began his downward plunge into faith which if He does not repent instantly, may eventually find himself warring against God himself who is our Good Shepherd.”

War God Christian Leadership Perfect Good Treasure Sheep Plunge Servant Of God Shepherd Pastors Despises Scornful

Author:Santosh Thankachan

“The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.”

Thinking Needs I Can Hard Hands Common Worry Approach Meat Stubborn Plunge Unyielding New Approach

Author:Ben Marcus

“When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.”

People Knows Stories Speak Events Terrible Flow Disappear Witness Going Away Tails Plunge Plausible Heads Or Tails

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Reason Heaven Felt Space Race Brain Silence Knowing Heard Strange Ears Down And Boxes Finished My Soul Broke Lifts Funeral Boots Bells Solitary Numb Plunge Tolls Treading

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.”

Anger Thyself Plunge

Book:The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes

Source: The Works of Shakespeare: in Eight Volumes

“Today the world faces a single man armed with weapons of mass destruction, manifesting an aggressive, bullying attitude, who may well plunge the world into chaos and bloodshed if he miscalculates. This person, belligerent, arrogant, and sure of himself, truly is the most dangerous person on Earth. The problem is that his name is George W. Bush, and he is our president.”

“From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.”

Long Desire Enjoyment Plunge Fulfilment

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.”

Persons Support Conditions Complexes Depth Individuality Committed Plunge

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.”

Book Soul Helping Reading Forget Profound Profit Salt Plunge Calculating Impassioned

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”

Mind Childhood Burning Excitement Plunge Surrealism

Author:Andre Breton

“Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.”

Lasts Night Heaven Dark Sun Sky Color Reflection Blue Green Tone Colour Pale Charming Fluid Plunge Delicacy Unheard Indescribable Turquoise Dark Blue

Author:Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

“A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did, it has changed its plumage, And plunges you back into ignorant gloomage.”

Ifs Looks Book Changed Bird Ignorant Plunge

Author:Ogden Nash

“I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.”

Children War States Desire United Millions United States Middle East Opponents Middle East Saddam Hussein Sanctions Plunge

Author:George Galloway

“At my death paint my body with red paint and plunge it into fresh water to be restored back to life, otherwise my bones will be turned into stone and my joints into flint in my grave, but my spirit will rise”

Body Spirit Water Red Stones Paint Bones Graves Joints Plunge Fresh Water

Author:Crazy Horse

“Each painting is a plunge into the unknown.”

Painting Plunge

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“IN PERSIA I SAW that poetry is meant to be set to music & chanted or sung--for one reason alone--because it works.A right combination of image & tune plunges the audience into a hal (something between emotional/aesthetic mood & trance of hyperawareness), outbursts of weeping, fits of dancing--measurable physical response to art. For us the link between poetry & body died with the bardic era--we read under the influence of a cartesian anaesthetic gas.”

Art Reason Body Audience Saws Influence Emotional Fit Died Dancing Response Mood Eras Combination Gas Tunes Poetry Is Links Meant To Be Aesthetic Weeping Plunge Trance Outburst Persia

Author:Hakim

“Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.”

Ifs Love Virtue Cold Negative Vices Baths Plunge

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.”

Chance Crosses Roots Tragedy Track Soil Deprived Plunge Habitat Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.”

Trying Sides Results Brain Cases Activity Behavior Objectives Gaps Psychologist Plunge Physiological Neurology Accentuate Neurologists

Book:Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author

Source: Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.”

“At the ancient pond the frog plunges into the sound of water”

Sound Water Ancient Frogs Plunge Ponds Sound Of Water

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.”

Causes Fame Fortune Shy Plunge Bolts Fickle Trifling Jade

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.”

Thinking Soul Failing Depth Dare Teeth Leap Twilight Thirst Shallow Plunge Rail

Author:Philip Jose Farmer

“I am a technophile, so there is no such thing as a first draft. The first draft plunges on, and about a quarter of the way through it I realise I'm doing things wrong, so I start rewriting it. What you call the first draft becomes rather like a caterpillar; it is progressing fairly slowly, but there is movement up and down its whole length, the whole story is being changed. I call this draft zero, telling myself how the story is supposed to go.”

Way Firsts Whole Stories Progress Movement Changed Length Zero Realising Quarters Up And Down Plunge Rewriting Caterpillars

Author:Terry Pratchett

“You need to know a lot about what's going on, but when it comes to making the work, I take almost an anti-intellectual stance. You've got to be stupid enough, in some ways, to plunge into something that you have no idea what it's about. If you know what you're going to do before you do it, you just end up illustrating an idea.”

Ifs Knows Way Needs Ideas Ends Enough Stupid Intellectual No Idea Plunge Stance Illustrating

Author:Tim Zuck

“The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.”

Humans Age Water Steps Plans Risk Car Old Age Contact Seats Panic Trash Belts Prudence Soap Paranoia Plunge Steep Seat Belts

Author:Max Lucado

“Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.”

Way Life Feels Writing Sometimes Moments Seems Happens Beautiful Existence Particular Terror Things Happen Beast Ecstasy Portions Penetrate Monstrous Plunge Totality

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”

Life Inspirational Interesting Adventure Thick Boldness Plunge Seize The Day Thick Of It

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Light Understanding Answers Meetings Insight Plunge

Book:Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

Source: Tracks of a Fellow Struggler: Living and Growing Through Grief

“To minimize my guilt at going to the pictures - to call this wanton pursuit of an effete pleasure by another name - I needed movie companions as drunkards need drinking partners. If I entered a cinema alone, God might plunge his arm through the roof of the auditorium booming in a stereophonic voice, 'And you, Crisp, what are you doing here?' I would never have dared reply, 'I'm just enjoying myself, Lord.'”

Ifs Needs Might Names Enjoy Voice Pleasure Lord Humour Arms Needed Guilt Drinking Partners Pursuit Cinema Companion Roof Plunge Crisps Drunkards Wanton Auditoriums

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.”

Men Fear Views Break Feet Safety Wave Flames Dread Eagles Dove Plunge Break Through

Author:Colley Cibber

“What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.”

Fun Decision Casts Favors Officials Engagement Plunge Ballots

Author:Wavy Gravy

“The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.”

Body Language Fashion Kissing Elements Clothes Labor Exciting Hug Belts Erotic Jersey Plunge

Book:On the contrary

Source: On the contrary

“Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.”

Wife Beats Mad Smoking Knives Shocking Tobacco Plunge Razors Carving

Book:Verses and Translations

Source: Verses and Translations

“When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.”

People Ifs Knows Want Feels Deals Buddhism Command Plunge

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.”

Past Culture Fiction Heard Genius Science Fiction Comment Justified Voyages Plunge Leonardo

Author:Lucio Russo

“When The Simpsons came around, there really was nothing else like it on TV. It's hard to imagine, but when Fox first took the plunge with it, it was considered controversial to put animation on prime time.”

Firsts Hard Imagine Tvs Prime Foxes Animation Controversial Plunge Prime Time

Author:Matt Groening

“As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.”

Men Pleasure Common Darkness Wise Miserable Vain Despise Skepticism Blindness Herds Being Wise Plunge Sceptic

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think

“The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.”

Bears Depth Deeper Treasure Leap Skepticism Infidelity Abyss Plunge Misers Shipwreck Sceptic

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper and deeper.”

Men Feels Pain Fall Grows Sorrow Reflection Misery Deeper Relief Decline Adequate Piety Plunge Incessantly Imbecility Pain And Sorrow

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler

“Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to be a plunge. I think poetry is dangerous. There's nothing mild and predictable about poetry.”

Thinking Knows Littles Next Steps Dangerous Walking Tiny Poetry Is Predictable Plunge Next Steps Precipice Ridges

Author:Josephine Jacobsen

“I was seeing everything through pain.”

Pain Seeing Plunge

Author:Dick York

“Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.”

Trying Mean Home Results Strange Return Chaos Tales Familiar Native Contradiction Thieves Charming Vivid Nigeria Plunge Tempest Kinship Narrators Truism

Author:Billy Collins

“The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. And that's the Palestinian authority. I think they're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. And I think that they're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.”

Two Sometimes Political Calling Destruction Safety Sake Refuse Israel Killers Splits Palestinian Plunge Hamas

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.”

Ends Moments Faces Spirit Lost Finals Void Plunge

Book:Under the Net

Source: Under the Net

“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.”

World Giving Humans Heart Soul Stories Eye Opportunity Empathy Bottom Mysterious Human Soul Plunge Transactions

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.”

Thinking Men Doe Real Victory Defeat Irrational Plunge Real Men Samurai

Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

“The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.”

Way States Light Happiness Joy Enjoy Darkness Gone Please Deserve Delight Treated Deep Down Degradation Plunge

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin