Black Elk Quotes

If the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

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• This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Time
  • True
  • Want

• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • May
  • Soul

• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

  Cara Buono
  • Men
  • Mad
  • Being

• One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Eyes

• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Men
  • Spiritual
  • Learn

• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Chance

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Stress

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Work
  • Character

• At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Truth
  • True

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • Girl
  • Eyes
  • Look

• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • America
  • Democracy

• Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

  

  Augustus Hare
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Summer
  • Actors
  • Lasts

• I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Latin

• The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • Poverty

• If it's your wish, I will follow you everywhere even if your throne crumbles, and your shiny crown turns to rust. Even if the bodies pile up endlessly, above the bottomless pile of corpses. Beside you as you lie softly down I will be until I hear the word "Check mate!"- Sebastian

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Lying

• If the vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet; for such things are of the spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

  

  Black Elk
  • Men
  • True
  • Lost