Huston Smith Quotes
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke -
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.
Bryan Adams -
To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.
Linda Blair -
There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
Oprah Winfrey -
Sex stops when you pull up your pants, Love never lets you go.
Kingsley Amis
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.
Elia Kazan -
Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. Forster -
I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
Ian Holloway -
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.
Bert Williams -
Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
Lao Tzu -
There was something that finished chaos, born before Heaven and Earth.
Lao Tzu
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
William Shakespeare -
A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks -
It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.
Michael Morpurgo -
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Francis Bacon -
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Edward McKendree Bounds