Evelyn Underhill Quotes
A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
Evelyn Underhill
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
Karl Kraus
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
Orlando Bloom
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There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
Patricia Clarkson
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
Nancy Gibbs
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I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.
Jack Anderson
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
Harold Brodkey
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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.
Sam Kean
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
Helen Keller
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Evel Knievel bet me $25,000 I couldn't ride a motorcycle 650 miles from Las Vegas to Twin Falls, Idaho.
Bobby Riggs
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Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.
Peter Lamborn Wilson
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They accused me of anything, anything at all, but they had no evidence.
Abdul Salam Zaeef
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
Barry Eisler
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A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
Evelyn Underhill
