Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil

Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds.

Walt Disney

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life...

William Raspberry

And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.

YaYa DaCosta

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

James Redfield

We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers.

Corey Dillon

It could get tiresome, ... It kind of wore on me.

Pat Riley

I think you're going to see that kind of series.

Brian Brown

It got kind of wild there at the end.

Robert South

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

Washington Irving

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Walter Savage Landor

A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

Walter Savage Landor

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Rebecca Solnit

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

Rebecca Solnit

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Spacey

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.