Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

Albert Schweitzer

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

Albert Schweitzer

For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

Albert Schweitzer

Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.

Albert Schweitzer

Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.

Albert Schweitzer

The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.

Albert Schweitzer

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

William Shakespeare

Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

All music has to speak in some form or other.

Edgar Allan Poe

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.

Eliot Spitzer

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street!

David Bowie

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

David Nicholls

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Betty Williams

Let's have no empty talk from this assembly, let's get something done.

Gerhard Schr

seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.

Charles Churchill

So loud each tongue, so empty was each head, / So much they talked, so very little said.

Jim Parrack

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

Charles Spurgeon

The full he empties, and the empty he fills.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.

Eileen Caddy

Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

Kim Clijsters

I was feeling very weird out there today in general. I was feeling very empty out there.

Richard Harris

I was referred to her by a guardian in northern Wilmington, a guy who handles people that are moving into nursing homes. They leave all their stuff there, and we have to empty the houses out. She provides a great service.