Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

Brian Tracy

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

Eckhart Tolle

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Edgar Allan Poe

But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust

Colin Powell

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

Damien Hirst

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

Ann Druyan

It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

Albert Einstein

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

Douglas MacArthur

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

Augusten Burroughs

No matter your spiritual beliefs, if you hold any, the answer is the same: sometimes, why is not knowable. If you open the refrigerator door and a tub of Kozy Shack tapioca pudding tumbles out and splats open onto the floor, you clean it. You don’t stand there and question why it happened, how it was possible. Why doesn’t matter now.

Ayn Rand

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.

Benito Mussolini

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

Benito Mussolini

The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State -- a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values -- interprets, develops, and potentiates the whole life of a people.

Jane Goodall

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith.

Jane Goodall

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Jane Goodall

I wouldn't even like to begin to define God - I have absolutely no idea. But what I feel, and what touches me, is a great spiritual power, which I don't even want to name. If I had to, I would say God, because I don't know any other.

Jan Morris

I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological, imaginative, and essentially spiritual, too.

Cesar Millan

Spiritual fulfillment doesn't have to mean belief in a religion or disbelief in science. ... Whether one believes in an unseen, all-knowing force, or the wonder of science and the universe, or simply the beauty of the human spirit, nearly every one of feels an inner longing to feel part of something bigger than ourselves.

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Tig Notaro

I am just at tragedy right now.

Thomas Harris

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

Thomas Kyd

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy.