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“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.”

Mind Eye Young Joy Desire Passion Enjoy Walks Existence Vision Walking Thousand Behavior Assuming Depth Admire Live Life Unhappiness Leisure Portraits Sublime Plunge Grotesque Mind Set

Author:Honore de Balzac

“If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.”

Ifs Persons Four Magic Crosses Green Fishes Come Up Grass Leafs Ants Plunge Fingernails Clovers Chilly Four Leaf Clover

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes States Turns Girl Women Marriage Four Twenties Remains Eight Wit Hills Thirty Rejoice Entering Repent Summit Eighteen Plunge Seventeen Wedlock

Author:Samuel Richardson

“Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.”

Made Moments Hands Purpose Forever Divine Please Eternity Made It Pregnant Plunge Divine Purpose

Book:Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

Source: Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

“I am not fooling myself with dreams of immortality, know how relative all literature is, don't have any faith in mankind, derive enjoyment from too few things. Sometimes these crises give birth to something worth while, sometimes they simply plunge one deeper into depression, but, of course, it is all part of the same thing.”

Knows Giving Sometimes Dream Courses Literature Know How Mankind Birth Despair Depression Crisis Deeper Immortality Enjoyment Relative Plunge

Book:Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.”

“A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.”

Knows Made Dream Seems Courses Lost Nature Dark Sun Tree Color Wind Bird Rain Roots Presses Clouds Warm Storm Rising Soil Afternoon Juice Nests Plunge Tranquil Sap Elementals Fermentation

Author:Jacques Roumain

“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.”

“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that trans-figuration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.”

Knows Real Moments Values Enjoy Memories Color Tests Photographer Golden Sentiments Baths Trans Splendor Plunge Tranquil True Value Recoil

Author:Georges Duhamel

“There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't just a good story-it's a true one. Searching for the souls of its explorers, it takes you to the far tip of the plank and plunges you deep to the bottom of the ocean.”

People World Soul Enough Stories Risk Ocean Bottom Treasure Hungry Obsessed Buried Hunters Pirate Good Story Plunge Explorers True Ones Buried Treasure

Author:Brad Meltzer

“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”

Men Action Desire Grows Greater Deeds Great Men Tranquility Calmness Plunge Suspended Waterfalls Composure

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.”

Hands Water Wonder Regret Staring Plunge Wrists

Author:W. H. Auden

“As soon as an opinion becomes common it is sufficient reason for men to abandon it and to uphold the opposite opinion until that in its turn grows old, and they require to distinguish themselves by other things. Thus if they attain their goal in some art or science, we must expect them soon to cast it aside to acquire some fresh fame, and this is partly the reason why the most splendid ages degenerate so quickly, and, scarcely emerged from barbarism, plunge into it again.”

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”

Ifs Mind Wells Made Loss Results Known Risk Amount Prove Perception Investment Investing Oil Holes Analysis Dry Investors Schedules Probability Plunge Default

Author:Seth Klarman

“Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender.”

Knows World Littles Self States Desire Impossible Activity Surrender Enjoyed Little Things Serenity Fulfilled Calmness Plunge Renunciation Desire For Power

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects.”

Source: The Complete Novels Of The Bronte Sisters: Seven-Book Bundle

“It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?”

Easy Balls Monsters Plunge Labyrinth Mazes Precaution Yarn Ariadne

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.”

Men Mind Believe Doe Art Made Care Heard Judging Conversation Understood Capacity Excellence Ridiculous Spots Pauses Remarks Penetrate Plunge Incomparable Art Of Conversation

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful song at the intrusion of an annoying woodpecker. Whenever you should question your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”

“In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.”

Mind Heart Self Form Movement Direct Shining Deeper Sole Restraint Thyself Plunge Brahman

Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.”

Knows Way Ends Gone Land Floats Plunge

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.”

Thinking World Way Should Trying Humans Looks Able Fun Human Beings Approach Creating Instinct Driven Having Fun Excitement Plunge

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.”

Age Force Fantasy Projects Gains Excitement Folly Peculiar Schemes Imitation Plunge

Author:Charles Mackay

“Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.”

Ifs Should Care Hell Influence Rocks Healthy Weight Constitution Pressure Heavy Fallen Righteousness Wickedness Spiders Prudence Plunge Letting You Go

Book:Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

Source: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Other Puritan Sermons

“Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.”

Men World Has Beens War America Fighting Darkness Periods Men And Women Plunge Waging War

Author:Mark Kennedy

“It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.”

Men Years Wells Facts Enemy Darkness Progress Ignorance Intellectual Every Man Instruction Superstitions Unfortunate Gross Disbelief Plunge

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.”

Difficult Progress Easier Ocean Plunge

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.”

Nations Economic Military Complexes Excuse Debt Administration Emergencies Plunge Treasury Gop Wartime Military Industrial Complex

Book:Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.”

Source: Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated By Arthur Rackham

“I am always torn. Between control and chaos; passion and tranquility. Between what's fated and what I want. Part of me longs to take the plunge, to dive off headfirst and let the feeling of control evaporate on the wind. And part of me wants to be in a place where I'd never have to worry about that choice--or any choice. Where peace and calm are the only things I'd feel.”

Want Feels Feelings Choices Passion Worry Wind Chaos Calm Tranquility Torn Plunge

Author:Jocelyn Davies

“Make sure you're realistic about what you can do, but if you have a good lead with something, making the plunge into full-time writing is the only way to go.”

Ifs Way Writing Can Do Realistic Plunge

Author:Ben Clymer

“I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.”

Thinking May Moments Hurt Cold Lakes Keep Going Swimming Scream It Hurts Just Do It Plunge Toss Icy

Author:Margaret Atwood

“It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.”

Philosophy Justice Violence Deeper Quests Non Violence Plunge

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul”

Soul Winning Accepting Labor Pearls Plunge Hazards

Book:Select Works

Source: Select Works

“The minute I sit down and think 'Okay, this must be KID SAFE!' my Muse develops Tourrette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker, and my mind plunges into the gutter and I draw an appalling blank on anything that is not violent, gory, profanity laden, or depraved. So I think the only way I can ever do kid's books if I plan not to do kid's books. If that makes any sense.”

Ifs Thinking Way Mind I Can Book Kids Plans Minutes Safe Draws Okay Down And Violent Lunch Blank Muse Plunge Profanity Gutters Depraved

Author:Ursula Vernon

“We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.”

Heart Ideas Soul Body Light Sacrifice Ready Heart And Soul Plunge Soul And Body

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“Plunge Deep enough in order to see something that is hidden and glimmering.”

Enough Order Plunge

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.”

Should Doe Self Remember Growth Doubt Flower Self Worth Surround Dirt Mud Plunge Lotuses Lotus Flower

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.”

Ifs World Firsts War America Cutting Battle Cost Taxes Decided Paid Rounds Excuse Credit Finance Relief Wealthy Venture Forgiven Soar Deficit Pretense Plunge No Excuses Tax Cuts

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Courage is perhaps our most admirable trait. The man, or woman, who possesses it is able to plunge ahead, despite dangers, despite warnings, despite hazards of all kinds, to attack the task at hand. Often, it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”

Men Kind Hands Able Danger He Man Tasks Stupidity Despite All Kinds Warning Traits Admirable Plunge Hazards Task At Hand

Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.”

Ifs Chance Walking Singing Plant Flying Forests Knees Unexpected Now And Then Stubborn Plunge Labradors Bunting

Book:The Life of John James Audubon: The Naturalist

Source: The Life of John James Audubon: The Naturalist

“It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin.”

Way Giving Hands Easy Chance Dangerous Safe Plunge Radar

Author:Seth Godin

“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.”

“Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.”

People Risk Right Now Findings Tolerance Pool Plunge Market Risk

Author:William J. Bernstein

“In fact, two slices of whole wheat bread increase blood sugar to a higher level than a candy bar does. And then, after about two hours, your blood sugar plunges and you get shaky, your brain feels foggy, you're hungry.”

Feels Doe Two Whole Facts Hours Levels Brain Blood Higher Increase Bars Hungry Bread Sugar Candy Wheat Plunge Higher Level Candy Bar Blood Sugar

Author:William Davis

“Senator [Ben] Sanders and I share some very big progressive goals. I've been fighting for universal healthcare for many years, and we're now on the path to achieving it. I don't want us to start over again. I think that would be a great mistake, to once again plunge our country into a contentious debate about whether we should have and what kind of system we should have for healthcare.”

“I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.”

Littles Care Waiting Chance Succeed Debate Affordable Plunge Affordable Care Act Contentious

Author:Hillary Clinton

“We should praise, rather, the courage of the player who, relying only on his intuition, plunges into a brilliant combination of which the issue does not appear to him too clear.”

Should Doe Issues Clear Player Praise Intuition Brilliant Chess Combination Plunge

Book:The Art of Chess Combination

Source: The Art of Chess Combination

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