Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Cornelius

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Don Cornelius

Love, peace and soul.

Dhani Jones

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

Albert Schweitzer

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Brian Weiss

Sometimes, soulmates may meet, stay together until a task or life lesson is completed, and then move on. This is not a tragedy, only a matter of learning.

Brian Weiss

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

Bob Dylan

The National Bank at profit sells road maps for the soul.

Bob Dylan

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

Bob Dylan

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

Bob Dylan

Life has its ups and downs, and time has to be your partner. Really, time is your soul mate.

Billy Crystal

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Bodhidharma

This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.

Bruce Forsyth

Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.

Brennan Manning

I knew there was only one place to go. I sank down into the center of my soul, grew still, and listened to the Rabbi's heartbeat.

Jane Goodall

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.

Jane Fonda

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

James Weldon Johnson

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Juvenal

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Blaise Pascal

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Blaise Pascal

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.