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

• I was outside when I heard a bang and that's when the plane did a whirly-down to the ground. After that I saw a wing come down.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Ground
  • Outside
  • Plane

• 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

• 'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Music
  • Alice in Wonderland
  • White Rabbit

• Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Nature
  • Positive
  • Negative

• The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• 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