Quotes with spirit

Quotes 41 till 60 of 344.

  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Auguste Rodin Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Armstrong Williams At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Robert Collier Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • A. C. Swinburne Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Andrei Sakharov Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Homer But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Albert Pike But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • George Orwell But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bernie Sanders Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Victor Hugo Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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