Thomas Sowell Quotes

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Thomas Sowell

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• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Miracles

• The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Talk

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Soul

• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Words

• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Leader
  • Stage
  • Orchestra

• Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Real
  • Happy

• Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Soul

• O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Soul
  • Forever

• A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Soul

• May they not forget to keep pure the great heritage that puts them ahead of the West: the artistic configuration of life, the simplicity and modesty of personal needs, and the purity and serenity of the Japanese soul.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Forget

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• I like the fact that I have the power to convey a lot of emotion through my songs. I like to channel that when I'm singing. I think it's just a mix of R&B, soul, but then I kind of move more into the pop world and electronic pop and stuff like that.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • World
  • Power
  • Soul

• That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • She
  • Soul

• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • World
  • Soul

• There is only one romance the Soul's.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Love
  • Soul
  • inspirational

• After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Think

• You're very aware in the theater by the response you get, but not so much on television, obviously.

  

  Kevin Whately

• Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Soul
  • Leader
  • Generations