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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. -- J. G. Ballard
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. -- John Milton
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box. -- Graham Joyce
I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. -- Franz Liszt
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. -- A. E. Housman
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. -- Arundhati Roy
My only love sprung from my only hate. -- William Shakespeare
I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks. -- Mitt Romney
The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is? -- A. A. Milne
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence. -- Reginald Heber
Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. -- Robert Burns
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence. -- Meher Baba
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. -- Sigmund Freud
My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. -- William Shakespeare
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen. -- Dan Rather
The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative. -- Charles Bukowski
Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things... -- Dolly Parton
The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung. -- Albert J. Nock
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. -- Queen Latifah
The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years. -- Max Muller
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground. -- John Dryden
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. -- Terence
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro. -- William Christopher Handy
Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty. -- Gerald F. Lieberman
If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins. -- Henry Williamson
If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself. -- Neil Turok
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again. -- Jakob Bohme
Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants. -- Dan Jenkins
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. -- Muhammad Iqbal
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. -- William Falconer
We have no information, not even a tradition, concerning the first migration of the human race into Italy. It was the universal belief of antiquity that in Italy, as well as elsewhere, the first population had sprung from the soil. -- Theodor Mommsen
Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations. -- Edmund Phelps
The first draft is all about freedom, and if loyalty is in question, it is only my loyalty to the characters and situations on the page. All the worries about where the material may have sprung from or what so-and-so might think can be dealt with later. -- Jill McCorkle
A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads. -- Michael Azerrad
For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to. Now, in the more than 20 years I've been doing this, the concept of adventure-travel trips or expeditions by groups has sprung up. The places I went 20 years ago now have adventure-travel trips. -- Tim Cahill
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. -- Annie Jacobsen
Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light. -- John Dryden
I'm still in love with you I'm sprung -- Ginuwine
For we are all sprung from earth and water -- Xenophanes
Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up. -- Naomi Klein
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth. -- Lucretius
Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. -- Tanith Lee
Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods. -- Alexander Pope
Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! -- Rabindranath Tagore
Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light. -- John Dryden
Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung, Saved others' names, but left his own unsung. -- Walter Scott
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Deliriously imagined, The Mothering Coven is a work of wonder. Joanna Ruocco arrives: marvelous, and fully sprung! -- Carole Maso
For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. -- Homer
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? -- Ellen Glasgow
When Johnson started singing, he seemed like a guy who could have sprung from the head of Zeus in full armor. -- Bob Dylan
I sprung you because I've got a message for you""doesn't your family own a cell phone company?""only a little one -- Ally Carter
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place. -- Marisha Pessl
The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood. -- Max Landis
Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you. -- Forrest Curran
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. -- Walter Benjamin
Der, die, das, dem, den, des. German's six ways of saying 'the', like six sexual positions you never knew existed. Hey, I just sprung a boner. -- Barry Webster
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard. -- John Calvin
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright. -- Joanna Newsom
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did. -- Meg Wolitzer
The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while". -- Swami Vivekananda
Environmental philosophy just is philosophy full stop. It only sprung up as distinct subfield because mainstream philosophy was ignoring some of the most important philosophical challenges of our time. -- Dale Jamieson
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen. -- Philip Pullman
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures. -- Henry James
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes. -- Thomas Carlyle
The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes. -- Mark Twain
From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire. -- John Dryden
Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy. -- Beyonce Knowles
'Cause your love got the best of me, and baby you're making a fool of me. You got me sprung and i don't care who sees, 'cause baby you got me so crazy. -- Beyonce Knowles
Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,-A life-complete in death-complete to die. -- John B. Tabb
Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump! -- W. C. Fields
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure? -- George Herbert
America comes from a flawed but wonderful idea. Many great things have sprung forth over the past few hundred years but there were deep issues in the beginning that now are starting to show up. -- Peter Buffett
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells. -- Marcel Proust
Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung. -- Walter Scott

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