Quotes of: Vague-idea Keyword

It’s not enough to fill your head with wondrous ideas—you must initiate action.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

Nadja

The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord.

The Normal Christian Life

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The October Country

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

One Big Thing: Discovering What You Were Born to Do

The idea that people who guarded you could also be the people that you needed guarding from was nothing anyone should have to learn.

Land of Love and Drowning

Remember, children, all the stories are true." Simon tried to wrap his head around the idea that there might, somewhere in Germany, be a large bean stalk with an angry giant at the top.

The Lost Herondale

The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Let's Face It

Her true hope was that something would happen in the course of her time abroad that would mean she need never take the place. What that 'something' was she had no idea.

Life After Life

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

Les Misérables

What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

Les Misérables

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something - an absurd idea, but it persisted - 'I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to this.

Mary Bennet

There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.

Someone to Watch Over Me

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven.

The Swiss Family Robinson

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

The Shadow of the Wind

You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

Turn Coat

He's nuts" Bianca said "We need to jump off this cliff" i said "Oh nice idea!! Your nuts too

The Titan's Curse

You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?" -- Sandre to Catriana

Tigana

I'm not married," he said softly, "because I can't stomach the idea of marrying a woman inferior to me in mind and spirit. It would mean the death of my soul.

Throne of Glass