Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

John Dryden

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

John Dryden

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

John Dryden

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

John Dryden

The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

John Dryden

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

John Mayer

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

John Locke

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

John Lewis

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

John Lancaster Spalding

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

John Lancaster Spalding

Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

John le Carre

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

Joseph Hall

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

Joseph Hall

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

Karel Capek

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Joyce Meyer

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

Katharine Hepburn

You can’t change the music of your soul.

Joseph Conrad

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Joshua Ferris

To conform is to lose your soul

Leonard Cohen

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Leonard Cohen

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

L. J. Smith

When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

John Keats

Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

John Keats

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

Julio Cortazar

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Joy Page

You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.

Joshua Prager

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

Josh Billings

The soul has more diseases than the body.

Karl G. Maeser

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

Kailash Kher

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.