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  • I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.

  • Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

    "Complete Works of Edmund Burke".
  • Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors.

    Children   Light   Color  
    Johannes Itten (1961). “Kunst der Farbe”, Reinhold Pub. Corp
  • In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).

    Life   Daughter   Dark  
  • If you go through any newspaper or magazine and look for active, kicking verbs in the sentences, you will realize that this lack of well used verbs is the main trouble with modern English writing. Almost all nonfiction nowadays is written in a sort of pale, colorless sauce of passives and infinitives, motionless and flat as paper.

    Rudolf Flesch (1946). “The Art of Plain Talk”
  • The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  • Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

    Mistake   Errors   Games  
  • Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

    Science   Sea   Space  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press
  • Love is the force that leaves you colorless

    Ovid (2005). “Metamorphoses: A New Translation”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company
  • But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy.

    Rivers   Talking   Long  
    "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.
  • Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

    Believe   Color   People  
    Source: fantasyworlds.wordpress.com
  • How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

    Yellow   White   Hip Hop  
  • Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

    Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com
  • It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

    Fear   Light   Rays  
    "Essays, First Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.
  • One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

  • It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

    Believe   Ego   Would Be  
  • When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

    Night   Men   World  
    Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.1479, e-artnow (Open Publishing)
  • New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

    Source: www.redividerjournal.org
  • What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

    Oscar Wilde (1908). “Intentions”
  • One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister.

    Law   Study   Prime  
  • She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

    Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.72, e-artnow
  • the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest attainment is the reduction of mankind to clockwork. In its atmosphere all those finer and more delicate liberties, which require treatment and spacious expansion, inevitably dry up and perish. The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

  • Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

    Prayer   Book   Humble  
  • This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

  • The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

    William Strunk Jr. (2015). “Elements of Style”, p.20, Lulu.com
  • When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

    White   Soul   Black  
  • You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.

    "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 12, 2014.
  • Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

    Summer   Past   Moon  
  • Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

    Syntactic Structures ch. 2 (1957)
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