African Spir Quotes

Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Force
  • Individualism

• I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Want

• Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• You can't escape from what you are.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • You
  • Escape

• When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Think
  • Like
  • Bitcoin

• If a woman makes a unilateral decision to bring pregnancy to term, and the biological father does not, and cannot, share in this decision, he should not be liable for 21 years of support... autonomous women making independent decisions about their lives should not expect men to finance their choice.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Father

• My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • City
  • Style
  • Myself

• We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

  

  Benito Mussolini

• …vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

  

  Charles Dickens

• In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Perfect
  • To Be
  • Member

• You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.

  

  Kurt Loder
  • Up
  • Important
  • Law

• The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Work
  • God
  • Son

• Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world's remaining superpower to remain in their country.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that?

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Smoking

• There aren't, like, four Aquamans before me. I get to set the tone for it.

  

  Jason Momoa

• For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • Creativity

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• Pollution from oil and gas development, toxic runoff, and miles and miles of plastic trash foul the waters and threaten marine life.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Life
  • Development
  • Oil

• On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soul
  • Fire
  • Bold

• “a room without boooks like a body without soul”

  

  Brother Roger
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Room

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

  

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