Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Kary Mullis

Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.

Dwight L. Moody

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

David Platt

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

Jeanette Winterson

The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.

Michel de Montaigne

I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.

Theodore Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Buddha

On the contrary, Subhuti, those Bodhisattvas who, when these words of the sutra are being taught, will find even one single thought of serene faith, will be such as have honoured many hundreds of thousands of Buddhas, such as have planted their roots

Epictetus

I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?

Norman Foster

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.

Laurie Lee

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.

Kim Campbell

There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians.

Hunter S. Thompson

Freedom, Truth, Honour — you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.

English 15th Century Proverbs

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.

Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

Richard Schiff

who is somewhat conscience-driven and dynamic in his opinions. There is pressure to relieve him of his voice.

Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscience that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Johannes Heesters

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,/ That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.

Ernie Accorsi

He shaped nearly every rule and philosophy we have in our league today. Most of all, he was the moral conscience of the National Football League. He now joins the pantheon of incredible men who made this league what it has become.

Mike Holt

I think it shows that you are a man of conscience and principle.

Bob Inglis

Hundreds of American soldiers have given their lives in Afghanistan to promote liberty, including freedom of conscience and religion.

Ernie Accorsi

He was the conscience of the National Football League.

Harry Pachon

He voted his conscience, even when people made fun of him,