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.

Jonathan Swift

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

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • You
  • Spirit
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Distance

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

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• 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.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Ideas
  • Spirit
  • Landscape

• God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Change
  • Spirit

• Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • You
  • Religious
  • Spirit

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Power
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Spirit
  • Genius
  • Enthusiasm

• The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Politics

• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Artist
  • Spirit
  • Materials

• 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.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • God
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Father
  • Dream

• 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.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Work
  • Together
  • Stop

• Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, ‘Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Spirit

• The Church's basic moral principle regarding reproductive technologies is this: if a given technology assists the marital embrace in achieving its natural end, it can be morally acceptable, even praiseworthy. However, if it replaces the marital embrace as the means by which the child is conceived, it's not in keeping with God's design.

  

  Christopher West
  • Children
  • Technology
  • Mean

• The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

  

  Steve Howey
  • Playing
  • Gift
  • TV Show

• A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Spirit
  • Pounds
  • Avarice