Top 171 Dormant Quotes & Sayings

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

If you don't make those vocal chords work, they'll go dormant on you.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person.

Thoughtful, energetic, smart, determined. I tried to own and further those qualities and often mustered them up when they were dormant and something wasn't going my way.

In the very moment, the seeds of a perfect destiny lie dormant within you. When you release their potential, you can manifest a life more wonderful and any dream.

The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential.

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are activated.

I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

My passion for music lay dormant during my football career and now I can explore it.

The capacities by which we can gain insights into higher worlds lie dormant within each one of us.

Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

I'd rather die enormous than live dormant.

Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

My theory about L.A. is that it's almost like you have an allergy that's dormant and just need to be put in the right context for that allergy to come out. And L.A.'s like that in my mind. People who have any of that dormant blind ambition, it can easily come out in that context.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

Everyone has a dormant wrestling character in them that is pretty easy to tap into.

What I found with depression was that it occurred when I was lying dormant, when I had nothing better to do.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing.

I'm not sure what it is that I want, but I feel it deep in the pit of my stomach. It's there sitting dormant. I'll know it when I see it.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Love ambushed you, it lay in wait, dormant for days or years. It was the red thread, the peach stone, the kiss, the forgiveness. It came after you, it escaped you, it was invisible, it was everything.

One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

The black church is dormant, much of the community is dormant. If the black church is leaning toward the right, much of the community is leaning toward the right. If it is leaning in the left wing direction having repercussions.

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.