Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

Alan Watts

Every explicit duality is an implicit unity.

Alan Watts

Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.

Charles Baudelaire

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I want the flashbacks to feel that once you're there they have their own unity, their own kind of atmospheric sensibility; I want the reader to be transported. The novel is a big, complicated, unknowable thing before it's written.

Edith Stein

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

Cathy Freeman

Peace, unity and harmony!

Napoleon Bonaparte

From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one step.

Alain de Botton

Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.

Bayard Taylor

True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.

Bodhidharma

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

Edmund Burke

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

Benjamin Disraeli

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Aldous Huxley

To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.

William Shakespeare

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.

John Sulston

Title deeds establish and protect ownership of our houses, while security of property is as important to the proprietors of Tesco and Sainsbury's as it is to their customers.

Atharva Veda

Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.

Bhagavad Gita

Those who are devoid of attachment, whose mind is fixed in knowledge, all deeds of such liberated persons dissolves away.

William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Rig Veda

Only by indulging in good deeds can one expect good results.

Chris Sanders

I didn't want something like, 'Hey Stitch, let's go out and do good deeds today,'

Rig Veda

The person who is always involved in good deeds experiences incessant divine happiness.

William Shakespeare

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.