Angelus Silesius Quotes

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn

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• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Choice

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Love
  • Short

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Energy

• The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Different
  • Women
  • Country

• Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Just
  • News
  • Boring

• I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Why
  • Understand

• Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Democracy
  • Model

• When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Man

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Family
  • Training
  • Yourself

• Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Control
  • Stop

• When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Together
  • Present
  • Story

• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • War
  • Popular
  • Wicked

• 'I don’t know,' Davidson said. 'Maybe it’s not about politics. Maybe these guys are just assholes.''Seems the simplest explanation,' I said.

  

  John Scalzi

• I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Situation
  • Memory
  • Delete

• There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Pride
  • Glory
  • Ecstasy

• I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

  

  Matthew Vaughn
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Soul

• Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Never

• Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Soul