Sarah Vowell Quotes

I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

Sarah Vowell

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• Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Self

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Character
  • Power

• Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Earth
  • Sports
  • Face

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

  

  Aberjhani
  • She
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Now there was fought a battle such as men have not seen the like. And the earth was covered with steel, and arrows fell from the clouds like hail, and the ground was torn with hoofs, and blood flowed like water upon the plains. And the dead lay around in masses, and the feet of the horses could not stir because of them.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Water

• Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Earth
  • Poverty

• What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Religious

• 'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • True
  • Earth

• The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Life
  • Good
  • Earth

• 'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Bad
  • Earth
  • Beginning

• For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Earth
  • Moving
  • Dark

• I think teams have tried to do a lot of the same things to us throughout the years. Teams will sag off me and guard the other girls pretty close, so my job is to penetrate and get somebody else an open look, and it's worked for us.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Years

• Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Done

• I would argue that we are in the middle of the biggest cable-news bull market that we have seen in some time. Clearly outside of any war that has taken an ongoing story that has taken several weeks at a time. It's anyone's guess as to when it ends, if it ever does. And I think all of that is remarkable. No one predicted it.

  

  Bill Hemmer
  • War
  • Market
  • Argue

• When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Want
  • Hips

• I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Earth
  • Spiritual
  • Deeds