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

• A friend had a couple of pairs made up for me, ... I think the album is coming out.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Couple

• 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

• I'm 44 years old. So, it's really great to watch younger generations getting their opportunities, and being there to support them in that.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Generation
  • Opportunities

• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Chaos

• It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the historian, not the mathematician, introduced the "higher criticism," the standard of actual fact. It is he who is the real apostle of the realistic age.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Age

• 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