William Styron Quotes
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
Karen Salmansohn -
I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
Laura Bell Bundy -
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
Nancy Reagan -
I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
Adam Lambert -
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
Ovid -
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
Frances McDormand -
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Larry Norman -
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo -
I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
P. J. Harvey -
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
Gary Zukav -
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'Brien -
Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
Patrick Marber -
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
Kate Thompson -
If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.
Yitzhak Navon -
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
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'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.
Karyn Kusama -
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.
Vaclav Havel -
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
William Shakespeare -
It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.
William Styron