“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
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“ The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
- 536
“ We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. ”
- Isadora Duncan- Copy
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“ Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. ”
- Doug Larson- Copy
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“ Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
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“ It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit. ”
- Orson Scott Card- Copy
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“ Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 380
“ Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. ”
- Dr. David M. Burns- Copy
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“ At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 380
“ It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
- 184
“ My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors. ”
- Tony Martin- Copy
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“ Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us, the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armor of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and only half-repentant sinner… and we may be almost sure some sharp and bitter grain of truth lurks within it, and the wound is best probed. ”
- Jane Harrison- Copy
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“ Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ”
- Russell Hoban- Copy
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“ We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a low-down dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it… ”
- Zora Neale Hurston- Copy
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“ Aim for success not perfection… Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. ”
- Dr. David Burns- Copy
- 519
“ Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader. ”
- Terry Eagleton- Copy
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“ Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman's Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofuburgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts. ”
- Bryan Miller- Copy
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“ Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon… ”
- David Assael- Copy
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