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Quotes About Spontaneous

Spontaneous expansion must be free: it cannot be under our control; and consequently it is utterly vain to say, as I constantly hear men say, that we desire to see spontaneous expansion, and yet must maintain our control. If we want to see spontaneous expansion we must establish native Churches free from our control.
~ Roland Allen
Spontaneous expansion begins with the individual effort of the individual Christian to assist his fellow, when common experience, common difficulties, common toil have first brought the two together.
~ Roland Allen
INTERVIEWER: Do you do much rewriting? Wiper: I forget which of the great sonneteers said: "One line in the fourteen comes from the ceiling; the others have to be adjusted around it." Well, likewise there are passages in every novel whosefirst writing is pretty much the last. But it's the joint and cement, between those spontaneouspassages, that take a great deal of rewriting.
~ Malcolm Cowley
Improvisation comedy is a wonderful example of the kind of thinking that Blink is about. It involves make very sophisticated decisions on the spur of the moment without the benefit of any kind of script or plot. That's what makes it so compelling and — to be frank — terrifying.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury.
~ Amitav Ghosh
I don't have to be logical. I'm a leopard. We're considered wild animals, you know. (Spoken by Megan.)
~ Amy Neftzger
C'est dans l'extraordinaire que je me sens le plus naturel.
~ Andre Gide
A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit. A law can compel work; only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor; the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent, natural, restful produce of our inner life.
~ Andrew Murray
Ee-ai-ee-ai-YEOW!
~ Ann M. Martin
Toleration is a herb of spontaneous growth in the Soil of Indifference; but the weed has none of the virtues of the medicinal plant, reared by Humility in the Garden of Zeal.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.
~ John Berger
Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
~ Alex Flinn, Beastly
I live my life like there's no yesterday.
~ Dane Cook
If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.
~ Casey Abrams
A person who can hold the nature of a child in himself never grows old and remains creative & young always.
~ Anuj Somany
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much.
~ Lydia Davis
Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
~ L'Wren Scott
I don't need anything to have a good time or be a hell-raiser. I was born one.
~ Brantley Gilbert
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
~ Andrew Weil
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
~ Henry Miller
I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.
~ Miranda Hart
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
~ Gregg Easterbrook
Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.
~ Trombone Shorty