Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whoopi Goldberg

Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

Ronald Reagan

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

Saint Augustine

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Saint Augustine

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Saint Augustine

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Zora Neale Hurston

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

Twyla Tharp

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Wassily Kandinsky

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.

Wassily Kandinsky

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

Voltaire

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

William Ralph Inge

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

William Booth

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Butler Yeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

Wilhelm Steinitz

Chess is not for timid souls.

Walter Savage Landor

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

Walter Scott

On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

William Kidd

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

Winston Churchill

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

Rick Riordan

Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!

Tracey Emin

The soul will always do what it needs to do,

Samuel Johnson

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Samuel Johnson

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul.

Rufus Wainwright

Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.

Roy Ayers

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

William Hazlitt

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

William Davenant

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

Wendell Berry

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

Walter Raleigh

Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.

W. Somerset Maugham

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.