African Spir Quotes

As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

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• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• With His love, you can wake up every day with an attitude of faith and expectancy.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Faith

• I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Thinking
  • Respect
  • Kind

• Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?

  

  Janet Maslin
  • Crisis
  • Phrase
  • Midlife

• We're encouraging them to bring healthy snacks, but when a parent comes up with a tray of sweets, I'm not going to turn them away. I don't want to be the cupcake killer.

  

  John Young
  • Parent
  • Healthy
  • Turn

• Difficulty shows what men are.

  

  Epictetus
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Difficulty

• The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Political
  • Social
  • Constitution

• The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • End
  • Inevitable
  • Chiefs

• We had longed for this success for many years, ... But better late than never.

  

  Omara Portuondo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Success
  • Never
  • Late

• Since so many people these days don't seem to start their families until around age forty, I predict there will be less child beating, but more slipped disks from lifting babies out of cribs. Even the father of advanced age who's not inclined to spare the rod is likely to suffer more than his victim: The first punch he throws might well be the last straw for his rotator cuff, reducing his disciplinary options to mere verbal abuse and napping.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Children
  • Father

• I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Story
  • Mood

• There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Knowledge
  • Satisfying
  • Forgiven

• Believe nothing, O monks, just because you have been told it, or it is commonly believed, or because it is traditional or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to and take as your guide.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Believe
  • Teacher
  • Guide

• In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Arms
  • Citizen

• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Judge
  • Conversation

• Religion helps to make social life more harmonious; its most important task is to remind us, in the language of pictures and parables, of the wider framework within which our life is set.

  

  Niels Bohr
  • Religion
  • Framework
  • Harmonious

• Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

  

  Joachim du Bellay
  • Journey
  • Made
  • Ulysses

• We're starting to work to put together ideas, that's the first step. We need to put the ideas so we can frame the debate, so we can move forward for what the agenda is for the American people.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)

  

  African Spir
  • Possess
  • Social Life
  • Antagonism