William Faulkner Quotes
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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I believe in traditional marriage.
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I was Speaker of the House in Florida, first Republican speaker in 120 years. And I totally dismantled the way this House worked and turned it around to what I believe is right.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.
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It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.
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Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?
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You never know where a blessing can come from.
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One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder.
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I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
