Quotes about spring
spring mean cutting
The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. Miyamoto Musashi
spring light flames
The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded. R. D. Laing
spring passion company-you-keep
If you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into everything we touch. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured. Which is why it is so priceless.
spring self initiative
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own. R. Buckminster Fuller
spring cities october
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. Nelson Algren
spring hate men
You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had, and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week. I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to...my own life. Newt Gingrich
spring healing icons
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation Nhat Hanh
spring jewels bud
Look deeply; I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch ... to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
spring flower learning
Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.
spring flower curves
Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty; Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty. John Greenleaf Whittier
spring shadow sideways
Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring. Margaret Atwood
spring heart insincere
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart. Marcus Tullius Cicero
spring two history
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. Marc Bloch
spring hug training
The good thing is we got this over in spring training. We played them three or four times and got all the hugs out of the way. Now it's time to go out there and beat them. Kevin Millar
spring happy-spring first-day-of-spring
Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring. Lilly Pulitzer
spring bird tree
Spring: trees flying up to their birds Paul Celan
spring moon climbing
And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring. Oscar Wilde
spring humorous imagination
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
spring book reading
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
spring feelings natural
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
spring garden soul
Those who go forth ministering to the wants and necessities of their fellow beings experience a rich return, their souls being as a watered garden, and a spring that faileth not Lucretia Mott
spring world matter
The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring, Break in upon the founded world, and change Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about. Lucretius
spring air body
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
spring order infinite-time
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.
spring smell rooms
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. Margaret Millar
spring past air
The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.
spring men poverty
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ... Margaret Oliphant
spring weather different
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain
spring heart names
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
spring inspiration years
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
spring autumn doe
A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring. Mary Boykin Chesnut
spring winter color
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
spring sweetheart my-sweetheart
Spring is my sweetheart ... Mary Baker Eddy