Evelyn Underhill Quotes

It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

Evelyn Underhill

• Society
• Exist
• Seems
• Loveliness
• Morally
• Beautifully

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Different
  • Society

• Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Society
  • Diversity
  • Ethnic

• Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Society
  • Exists

• Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Society
  • Government

• The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Law
  • Back

• I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Work
  • Society
  • Cats

• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Seems
  • Motion

• Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Society
  • Government
  • End

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Teach
  • Listen

• The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Past

• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Power
  • Society
  • Health

• We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • People
  • Society
  • Period

• The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

  

  O. Henry
  • Art
  • Service
  • Seems

• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Walking

• The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it’s Outsiders.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Society

• I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• Silence fell between the four of them as they looked up at the sky. There was no sign of movement, the stars stared back, unblinking, indifferent, unobscured by flying friends. Where was Ron? Where were Fred and Mr Weasley? Where were Bill, Fleur, Tonks, Mad Eye, Mundungus?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Eye

• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  

  Elizabeth Bishop

• My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Remember
  • Company
  • Apple

• It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Society
  • Exist
  • Seems