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Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. -- Pablo Neruda
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? -- Khalil Gibran
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. -- Agnes Smedley
Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes. -- Andrea Gibson
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. -- Fisher Ames
We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day. -- Jan de Bont
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free to jump off into that volcano and you have to be pathologically self-conscious. -- Alec Baldwin
First of all, there was a volcano of words, an eruption of words that Shakespeare had never used before that had never been used in the English language before. It's astonishing. It pours out of him. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips. -- Amos Oz
So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression. -- Phillip Noyce
If you remember nothing else, remember this: Inspiration from outside one's self is like the heat in an oven. It makes passable Bath buns. But inspiration from within is like a volcano: It changes the face of the world. -- Alan Bradley
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these prodigies of conversion and marvelous holiness if they had not changed the flames of human passion into volcanoes of immense love of God. -- Frances Xavier Cabrini
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus. -- John Gardner
The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. -- Khalil Gibran
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. -- Havelock Ellis
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
She touched my hand what a chill I got, her lips are like a volcano that's hot. -- Elvis Presley
Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. -- Edmund Burke
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. -- George Santayana
I wouldn't make a connection between the daily news and volcanoes. -- Werner Herzog
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. -- Douglas William Jerrold
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. -- Robert Ballard
However, there are a couple of volcanoes very close nearby, like Vesuvius in Italy right next to Naples. -- Werner Herzog
At the same time, there's something magnificent about volcanoes; they created the atmosphere that we need for breathing. -- Werner Herzog
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. -- Guido Calabresi
It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created. -- Werner Herzog
Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves -- William Cohen
I went to volcanoes where I knew that there was a lot of mythology around them; there was something like the creation of gods and monsters and demons. -- Werner Herzog
I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the wind and learn by heart the habits of the ponderosa pine. -- Edward Abbey
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn. -- Edmund Burke
The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. -- Horace Mann
Volcanic ash will be experienced in all parts of your world, as the volcanoes around your earth are simultaneously activated. Face masks and goggles will be of great value -- Esther Hicks
What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true. -- Neil Gaiman
As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. -- Paul Stamets
Most of the volcanoes are pretty far away. You have to go to, God knows, Alaska. Or you have to go to the Southern Indies or you have to go to a specific island. -- Werner Herzog
It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes. -- Werner Herzog
Wives? she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, None active, as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre
Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. -- John le Carre

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