Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Bishop

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

Andrew Cohen

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Amy Carmichael

There may be love, understanding love, all around us, and yet we may be needing some word of life in our own soul, something that would do what only the Divine can do. “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life.

Amy Carmichael

If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Amy Carmichael

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love....

Annette Bening

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it

Annette Bening

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Anne Stevenson

My soul, how will I recognize you if we meet?

Alma Gluck

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Anne Sexton

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Anne Sexton

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

Anne Rice

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Anne Rice

Once I returned to the Church and began to see the universe as a place that really did incorporate redemption and really tried to understand the implications of there being a God, my identification with the vampires as outcasts, as outsiders and lost souls began to totally wane. It no longer worked for me. I had done it. It had led me to this point.

Anne Rice

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

Anne Rice

Was it fair to say I didn't know the full state of my soul?

Anne Rice

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

Anita Diament

Weeping is terrible for the complexion" said Leonie, holding Shayndel close, "but it is very good for the soul.

Andrew Solomon

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

Andre Maurois

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh, and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.

Ambrose Bierce

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

Ambrose Bierce

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Ambrose Bierce

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Ambrose Bierce

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Alicia Keys

Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13.

Alicia Keys

Soul music is timeless.

Ani Difranco

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

Andrew Marvell

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

Andrew Murray

Being filled with the Spirit is simply this - having my whole nature yielded to His power. When the whole soul is yielded to the Holy Spirit, God Himself will fill it.

Amy Lowell

I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul.

Ann Brashares

I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.