Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chrissie Hynde

How much did you get for your soul?

George W. Bush

We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul.

George W. Bush

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

George Ripley

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

George Orwell

The belly comes before the soul.

Gene Simmons

I have sold my soul to the devil.

Garth Stein

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

Frederick Douglass

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

Frank Warren

Dear soulmate, I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

George Eliot

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another

Fernando Pessoa

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.

Fernando Pessoa

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

Fernando Pessoa

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

Fernando Pessoa

The human soul is an abyss

Fernando Pessoa

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.

Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

Felix Mendelssohn

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Henry Martyn

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

Henry Miller

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Henry Miller

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Henri Frederic Amiel

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Henri Frederic Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Helen Keller

We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

Cassandra Clare

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

George Eliot

The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

George Eliot

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

George Eliot

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

Franz Schubert

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!