Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Vinoba Bhave

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Woodrow Wilson

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Richard Louv

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

Richard Louv

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

Totie Fields

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.

Richard Louv

Green exercise improves psychological health.

William Ames

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

William Randolph Hearst

We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have an inviolable right to express their unbridled thoughts on all topics and personalities, being liable only for the use of that right.

William Butler Yeats

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

Rudy Giuliani

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination grows by exercise.

W. Somerset Maugham

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Yann Martel

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world.

Richard P. Feynman

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Richard Dawkins

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

Willard Gaylin

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination, a speech, travel-but rather by the symbolic and often unconscious representations.

Vivienne Westwood

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

Virginia Woolf

Women alone stir my imagination ...

William Blake

Work up imagination to the state of vision.