Thomas Hardy Quotes

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

Thomas Hardy

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• I miss Kentucky, I miss the sound of the cicadas, and I want to come back from time to time.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Sound
  • Kentucky

• There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Style
  • Flesh
  • Purity

• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Society
  • Control
  • Beginning

• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Firsts
  • Flesh
  • Would Be

• William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Work
  • God
  • Heaven

• Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Unhappy

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Destroy

• When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

  

  James Houston
  • Food
  • Died
  • Flesh

• There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Feels

• I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• God himself took this human flesh upon him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Humans
  • Flesh

• Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

  

  William Blake
  • Desire
  • Flesh
  • Burning Boy

• Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

  

  John Milton
  • Lose
  • State
  • Flesh

• I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Songs
  • Solo
  • Time to Time

• If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Death
  • Punishment
  • Time to Time

• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

  

  John Calvin
  • Spirit
  • Flesh
  • Regeneration

• Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Flesh
  • Baptism
  • Spiritual Life

• As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Rule
  • Crimes
  • Commonplace

• British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Doing

• I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Traded

• You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Street
  • Channel
  • Invitation

• What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Acting

• I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Flesh
  • Time to Time
  • Family Face