Philip James Bailey Quotes

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Philip James Bailey

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• Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Nature
  • English
  • View

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Community
  • Training

• One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Time
  • May
  • Mountain

• We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Spirit

• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Spirit
  • Generosity
  • United

• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Different
  • Small
  • Sky

• Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Think
  • Look
  • View

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • New
  • New York
  • View

• There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Point
  • View
  • Point Of View

• I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Person
  • Mountain
  • Climb

• Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Help
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • View
  • Contrast

• The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Joy
  • Spirit

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
  • Conquer

• What the Latins have done in this text (1 John v, 7) the Greeks have done to Paul (1 Tim. iii, 16). They now read, "Great is the mystery of godliness; God manifest in the flesh"; whereas all the churches for the first four or five hundred years, and the authors of all the ancient versions, Jerome as well as the rest, read, "Great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifest in the flesh." Our English version makes it yet a little stronger. It reads, "Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh."

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Text
  • Greeks
  • Latins

• I feel it's most important to keep it real and enjoy each moment, you know, take advantage of every opportunity life provides, because who knows what tomorrow may bring

  

  C. R. Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Science
  • I Love
  • Fact

• Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Positive

• It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Spirit
  • Mountain
  • View