#infinite

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life. ↗

— Nick Mancuso

#better #deserve #incalculable #infinite #life

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

#college #courses #english #go #had

Love demands infinitely less than friendship. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#demands #infinitely #less #love #than

As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#balance #care #certain #everybody #finding

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose. ↗

— James Payn

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There are an infinite number of ways to be moved in the theater. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#art #being #bored #commonly #fortune

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

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