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

• If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • Mind
  • Character
  • History

• The more you learn about yourself and your family tree, your self-esteem goes up. They will learn archival skills, historical analysis and science skills. You learn all this in the most seductive way, and that is through learning about yourself. Who doesn't like talking about themselves? It doesn't seem like science or history, it's just fun.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Fun
  • Tree
  • Historical

• Sisterhood cannot be assumed on the basis of gender; it must be forged in concrete historical and political practice and analysis

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Political
  • Historical
  • Gender

• 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