Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

Kary Mullis

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

David Platt

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Jack Canfield

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

Granth Sahib

In the midst of children, spouse and relations, some still remain detached; they are pleasing to Your Will. Inwardly and outwardly, they are pure, and they are absorbed in the True Name.

Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Carl Sagan

We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.

Carl Sagan

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.

Carl Sagan

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Carl Sagan

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Carl Sagan

The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Deepak Chopra

In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Martin Rees

It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.

Seth Shostak

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets.

Billie Holiday

Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. The cosmos sits on the tip of a pin.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

Charles Spurgeon

Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.

Charles Spurgeon

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Charles Spurgeon

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

Alan Watts

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

Alan Chadwick

A good gardener looks at every plant every day.

Alan Ball

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

Al Pacino

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.