George Sterling Quotes

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

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• I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Thoughts
  • Habit
  • Circumstances

• There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • History
  • Human

• There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Power
  • Silly
  • Caring

• Man is many things, but he is not rational.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Things
  • Rational

• Childhood is the sleep of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Children
  • Reason
  • Sleep

• The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Respect

• If God has laid your sins upon the Son of His love, you may rest assured that He will never lay them a second time upon you; since, if Christ has borne them and atoned for them to Divine justice, they never again can be found.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Time
  • God
  • May

• Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.

  

  Rithvik Dhanjani
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Because

• Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Persecution
  • Drive out
  • Subjugate

• I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Door
  • Christian Thing

• I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Men
  • Prayer
  • Accepting

• It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Reality
  • Passion
  • Sacrifice

• Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Broken
  • Promises

• As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

  

  George Sterling
  • Gods
  • Breath
  • Fires