- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Furnished Quotes
Lines on what fills our spaces, real and imagined.
This page brings together quotes that use "furnished" both literally and as a metaphor, from love as a canvas furnished by nature to a home filled with unconventional pieces. For more on creative expression, see Art quotes.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.' Some of that 'junk' is now worth an awful lot of money. What I was calling 'junk' in the '60s people wouldn't call 'junk' now.
- Forging
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.
- Discount
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- Nov 07, 2020
It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Pure
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- Nov 07, 2020
We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.
- Compound
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the advent of the Web, if you wanted to sustain a belief in far-fetched ideas, you had to go out into the desert, or live on a compound in the mountains, or move from one badly furnished room to another in a series of safe houses.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020