Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

Soren Kierkegaard

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• One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

  

  Kate Klise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Mind
  • Goals
  • Blessed

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
  • Ever
  • My Own

• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
  • Band
  • Year

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Business
  • History
  • Grave

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Son

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Happy
  • Freedom

• To love another person is to see the face of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Love
  • Person

• Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • God

• Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Cat

• The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Islamic

• Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Devil

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• The title of Christian is a reproach to us, if we estrange ourselves from Him after whom we are denominated. The name of Jesus is not to be to us like the Allah of the Mahometans, a talisman or an amulet to be worn on the arm, as an external badge merely and symbol of our profession, and to preserve us from evil by some mysterious and unintelligible potency; but is to be engraved deeply on the heart, there written by the finger of God himself in everlasting characters.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Christian

• Eu não vi o mar.Não sei se o mar é bonito.Não sei se ele é bravo.O mar não me importa.Eu vi a lagoa.A lagoa, sim.A lagoa é grandee calma também.Na chuva de coresda tarde que explode,a lagoa brilha.A lagoa se pintade todas as cores.Eu não vi o mar.Eu vi a lagoa...

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

• What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

  

  Brassaï
  • Chance
  • Phenomena
  • Surprises

• Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Silent