Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephenie Meyer

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

Stella Adler

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

Stefan Zweig

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Thomas Gray

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Thomas Hardy

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

William Wordsworth

A deep distress has humanised my soul.

William Wordsworth

Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.

William Wordsworth

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.

William Wordsworth

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

William Wordsworth

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.

William Wordsworth

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

William James

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

William Gibson

There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together.

Sarah Bernhardt

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.

Sarah Addison Allen

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

The simpler we make our lives, the more abundant they become. There is no scarcity except in our souls.

William Faulkner

She was the captain of her soul

Ronald Reagan

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

Saint Francis de Sales

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

Saint Francis de Sales

The whole world is not worth one soul.

Saint Augustine

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Saint Augustine

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Saint Augustine

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

Saint Augustine

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Tori Amos

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Tori Amos

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Vera Farmiga

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

Vera Farmiga

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

Vance Havner

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Robin Gibb

The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre.