Quotes with spirits

  • Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
  • It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
  • When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.
  • Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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  • Ann Bancroft And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Virgil Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Black Hawk Every one makes his feast as he thinks best, to please the Great Spirit, who has the care of all beings created. Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them. For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have a right to use it in determining what is right or wrong, and we should always pursue that path which we believe to be righ
    The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
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  • Eric Butterworth Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • C. S. Lewis Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Charles Dickens I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Douglas Adams In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Lord George Byron It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • William Hazlitt Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Benjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • Studs Terkel Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
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  • Aaron Carter Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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