Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

William Shakespeare

Foul whisperings are abroad

Gordon B. Hinckley

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Ray Bradbury

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

Malcolm Turnbull

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.

John Betjeman

A whispering and watery Norfolk sound Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

John Keats

It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

C. S. Lewis

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

C. S. Lewis

If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.

Carrie Newcomer

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

Carl Sagan

...the idea of a spiritual part of our nature that survives death, the notion of an afterlife, ought to be easy for religions and nations to sell. This is not an issue of which we might anticipate widespread skepticism. People will want to believe it, even if the evidence is meager to nil... compelling testimony ... provides that our personality, character, memory ... resides in the matter of the brain, it is easy not to focus on it, to find ways to evade the weight of the evidence.

Aron Ralston

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other.

Bill Vaughan

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Bill Blass

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

Tom Atkins

We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.

Benj Steinman

Wine and spirits are outperforming beer. It's been a reversal of a decade-long trend.

Anne Lamott

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Dan Simmons

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

Frank Herbert

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

Henry David Thoreau

Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

Jeff Vandermeer

What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Revelation replaced investigation.

Martin Luther

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Moses Mendelssohn

Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.

Frank Langella

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself