Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Murray

I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life to live. It changed the way that I worked just having a different presence and a different tension.

Richard Jackson

Troubled spirits often are manipulated by other types of spirits.

Ludwig von Mises

Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem.

Ludwig von Mises

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

Ludwig von Mises

Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

Ludwig von Mises

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer, ... It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

William Shakespeare

For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.

William Shakespeare

How now, wit! Whither wander you?

E. F. Schumacher

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

E. F. Schumacher

No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself, a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man. The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man as if people did not matter at all.

E. F. Schumacher

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

Dogen

If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing.

Jimmy Carter

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

James Taylor

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

James Taylor

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

James Taylor

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound.

James May

There are all sorts of things embodied in the LEGO brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour ... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

James Martineau

All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.

James Madison

A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.

James Madison

No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of Legislation, they have clashed and contended with each other, till one or the other has gained the supremacy.

John Friend

There are 3 levels of compatibility in intimate relationships that connect the most subtle realm of spirit to the most outer, dense form of body. There must be alignment in heart, through life view and spiritual intention; mind, through clear, open communication; and body, through physical chemistry. Compatibility on all 3 levels of heart, mind, and body is the ultimate love relationship, which everyone is seeking!

John Friend

Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

John Friend

It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul's most powerful spiritual advancements.

John Friend

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

John Friend

Be fresh and new when perceiving the other. Always look for the highest first, look for the intrinsic beauty and goodness, for the essence of spirit in your partner.

John Frusciante

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

John Frusciante

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

John Densmore

Going first is courageous. I'm just talking on a spirit level now.