Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

John Milton

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

John Milton

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

Nolan Bushnell

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

Robert Hass

The ideal of universal literacy, in the West anyway, was first of all a Protestant idea - that everybody had to be able to read to save their soul. That idea got transposed into an idea of the importance of literacy for democratic citizenship.

Rick Riordan

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

Taylor Caldwell

The feeble soul merely whines and complains.

Taylor Caldwell

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

Edward Coke

A corporation has no soul.

Edward Coke

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Edward Bach

Health depends on being in harmony with our souls

Edith Hamilton

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Holly Madison

I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.

Jonathan Lethem

The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism,

Jonathan Edwards

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

Jonathan Edwards

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Jonathan Edwards

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Jon Stewart

I still do not understand how a corporation can have person-hood if it has no soul and never dies.

Joyce Carol Oates

The despairing soul is a rebel.

Katey Sagal

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

Justin Townes Earle

I love Motown, but I've obviously always been more of a Memphis soul fan. If it's Stax or Motown, I go Stax.

Laurie Halse Anderson

You must walk alone to find your soul.

Thomas Aquinas

The soul is known by it's acts.

Thomas Aquinas

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

Thomas Aquinas

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

Thomas Aquinas

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Thomas Aquinas

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Therese of Lisieux

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Therese of Lisieux

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.

Tertullian

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

Tertullian

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Terry Tempest Williams

Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.

Terry Pratchett

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.