Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Audre Lorde

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

Arthur Rimbaud

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Edmund Waller

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

Edmund Waller

And keeps the palace of the soul.

Edmund Waller

The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

Edmund Waller

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Edna O'Brien

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Edgar Lee Masters

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Benjamin Franklin

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Arthur Eddington

Our model of Nature should not be like a building-a handsome structure for the populace to admire, until in the course of time some one takes away a corner stone and the edifice comes toppling down. It should be like an engine with movable parts. We need not fix the position of any one lever; that is to be adjusted from time to time as the latest observations indicate. The aim of the theorist is to know the train of wheels which the lever sets in motion-that binding of the parts which is the soul of the engine.

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Arthur Balfour

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

Anton Chekhov

You look at any poetic creature: muslin, ether, demigoddess, millions of delights; then you look into the soul and find the most ordinary crocodile!

Anton Chekhov

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

bell hooks

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

Diane Ackerman

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

Diane Ackerman

And yet, words are the passkeys to our souls. Without them, we can't really share the enormity of our lives.

Derrick Jensen

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

Demi Moore

Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.

Dean Koontz

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

Dean Koontz

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

Dean Koontz

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Dean Koontz

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

Coco Chanel

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

Elizabeth Scott

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

Elizabeth I

Chastity is the ermine of woman's soul.

Elizabeth I

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls.

Ashanti

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

Apolo Ohno

It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.