Cecil B. DeMille (Cecil Blount DeMille) Quotes
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Saadi -
I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
Ilan Stavans -
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk -
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
Larry David
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
Ted Nelson -
Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch.
Alexander Lowen -
Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood -
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
Bhagat Singh -
The most terrible of all things is terror.
William R. Alger
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
Tom Stoppard -
O SON OF MAN! I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.
Bahá'u'lláh -
Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.
William Craig Zwick -
If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
B. F. Skinner -
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Jhumpa Lahiri -
Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.
James Keller
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I wonder how Jon Stewart is doing right now. I just ... I hope he's happy.
Haley Webb -
... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.
Jeremy Camp -
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille