Jonathan Swift Quotes
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Quotes to Explore
-
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
-
We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
-
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
-
My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
-
I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
-
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
-
I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
-
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
-
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
-
If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.
-
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
-
The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
-
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
-
When the Spirit fills us, we are transformed, and by beholding God we become mirrors. You can always tell when someone has been beholding the glory of the Lord, because your inner spirit senses that he mirrors the Lord’s own character. Beware of anything that would spot or tarnish that mirror in you. It is almost always something good that will stain it- something good, but not what is best.
-
I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
-
My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams. So I've had dreams of my father over the years, and that's the way I really stay connected to him. He's still in my subconscious. He lives in there.
-
We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
-
No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.
-
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine.
-
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
-
Claire: Seriously? My mom? Let you in my room? In the middle of the night? Michael: Moms like me.
-
As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.
-
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
