Stephen Fry Quotes

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

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• Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Life
  • World
  • Loan

• I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Different
  • Thinking

• It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • God
  • Prayer

• It takes some silence to make sound.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Silence
  • Sound

• I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper.

  

  Tahiry Jose
  • Curves
  • Body Image

• I've never seen service as separate from my spiritual practice or my spiritual teaching.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Practice
  • Service

• Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Discover

• It would not have suprised Emilio Sandoz that his sex life was discussed with such candor and affectionate concern by his friends. The single craziest thing about being a priest, he'd found, was that celibacy was simultaneously the most private and most public aspect of his life.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Single

• Each creature walks a perfect earth. Each one gets the suffering and comfort that he needs. When ALL cravings and needs are satisfied, each bit of Soul, merges again with the One.The amount of joy and suffering in the world is always counterbalanced. One person's evil can terrify thousands, but one person's good can succour thousands too.

  

  Zeina
  • World
  • Good
  • Soul

• As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Weapon
  • Enslaved

• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • France
  • Good Mother
  • Good Sons

• ...thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children. I did my time in prison and have moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Children
  • Wife
  • Reunited

• Love is very similar to torture or a surgical operation. Even if the two lovers are very much in love and culminating in mutual desires, one of the two will always be fuller than the other. This one is the operator, the butcher; the other, subjected, the victim.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Love
  • Lovers
  • Desires

• People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

  

  Rumi
  • People
  • Desires
  • Hypocrites

• Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.

  

  Albert William Upton
  • Show
  • Pray
  • Spouse

• Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.

  

  Albert Parsons
  • Power
  • Law
  • Anarchy

• Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Historical
  • Anarchy