Indefinable Quotes

• Existe un Poder misterioso indefinible que lo impregna todo.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Power, Mysterious

  Discurso en Kingsley Hall, pronunciado el 17 de octubre de 1931, Londres

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• Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Powerful, Mean

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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• Es muy lista, demasiado para ser mujer. Carece del encanto indefinible de la debilidad.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Weakness, Charm

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

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• El color, que, como la música, es una cuestión de vibraciones, alcanza lo más general y, por tanto, lo más indefinible de la naturaleza: su fuerza interior.

  Paul Gauguin

  Color, Matter, Vibrations

  Paul Gauguin (1978). "Los escritos de un salvaje", Viking Adultos

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• There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

  Countee Cullen

  Hard Work, Secret, Break

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• El mundo está lleno de músicos que pueden tocar muy bien y no cruzarías la calle para verlos. Los buenos son los que tienen una actitud indefinible.

  Nick Lowe

  Actitud, Juego, Gente

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• Hay algo en las Olimpiadas, indefinible, que brota del alma, que debe preservarse.

  Chris Brasher

  Atleta, Alma, Olimpiadas

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• La convicción aporta una belleza silenciosa e indefinible a los rostros hechos de la arcilla humana más común; el devoto adorador de cualquier santuario refleja algo de su resplandor dorado, al igual que la gloria de un amor noble brilla como una especie de luz en el rostro de una mujer.

  Honore de Balzac

  Light, Shining, Clay

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• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Art, Inspiration, Past

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). "La reina de las ciencias"

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• Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Scene, Turns

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.164, Open Road Media

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• Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Falling In Love, Ideas

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• Creo en la fe. La fe es algo que funciona: hace que la gente haga cosas, tiene resultados. Es algo intangible, indefinible, muy real. Y mueve a la gente, a veces a la atrocidad. Y a veces a la supervivencia.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Real, Conmovedor, Gente

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• El gran arte es indefinible, pero no importa; existe de todos modos.

  Edward Abbey

  Art, Great Art, Art Is

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Rich, Behavior

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• Always the edge of the sea remains an elusive and indefinable boundary. The shore has a dual nature, changing with the swing of the tides, belonging now to the land, now to the sea.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Swings, Sea

  Rachel Carson, Sue Hubbell (1998). "The Edge of the Sea", p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Feels, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.238, Courier Corporation

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• Anyone who ever loves anyone truly loves them because of their indefinable essence, not because they conform to some checklist.

  Kim Wilkins

  Essence, Checklists, Conform

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• How can one express the indefinable sensations that one experiences while writing an instrumental composition that has no definite subject? It is a purely lyrical process. It is a musical confession of the soul, which unburdens itself through sounds just as a lyric poet expresses himself through poetry...As the poet Heine said, 'Where words leave off, music begins.'

  Piotr Ilich Chaikovski

  Music, Writing, Soul

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• La depresión es como un dolor de cabeza o el amor verdadero o cualquiera de esos conceptos indefinibles. Si nunca has pasado por ello, no sabes lo que es hasta que estás demasiado dentro como para detener el proceso.

  Tim Sandlin

  Headache, Process, Knows

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Skipped Parts: A Novel”, p.42, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Longing

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• There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Matter, Faces

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.214, 谷月社

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• There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Sadness, Elements

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1846). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.275

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• Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

  Lawren Harris

  Desire, Longing, Plastic

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• el amor es una esencia tan sutil, una maravilla metafísica tan indefinible, que su debida fuerza, aunque muy cruelmente sentida por el propio enfermo, nunca es claramente comprendida por quienes contemplan sus tormentos y se preguntan por qué lleva tan mal la fiebre común.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Amor Es, Esencia, Fiebre

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). "El secreto de Lady Audley", p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing.

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• The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.

  Irvin Kershner

  Gente, Humanidad, Mente

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