Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benito Mussolini

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment.

Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Anthony Mackie

If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.

Alfred Brendel

Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

Alfred de Vigny

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Alfie Kohn

Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?

Andy Warhol

I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

Andre Dubus

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Brigham Young

There is no music in hell, for all good music belongs to heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Charles Spurgeon

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Andrea Gibson

I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts

Desmond Tutu

God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.

Alphonsus Liguori

The way to Heaven is straight and narrow: they who wish to arrive at that place of bliss by walking in the paths of pleasure shall be disappointed; and therefore few reach it, because few are willing to use violence to themselves in resisting temptations.

Martin Luther

Despair makes priests and friars.

Martin Luther

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

Mason Cooley

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

Source Unknown

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Sorin Cerin

Nevertheless, love was given to us not only as fulfilment, as ideal, but as suffering, hopelessness, despair too. Is it all this the shield of this vanity called dream of our life or Illusion of Life?

George Santayana

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

George Santayana

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

George R. R. Martin

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.