Animates Quotes

• Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.

  

  Arnold Haultain
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Walking

• But he whom reason, not anger, animates is a peer of the gods.

  

  Claudius Claudianus
  • Reason
  • Gods
  • Peer

• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Fire

• The volumes, the surfaces, the lines-in one word, the structures that build a tectonic construction-do not represent the whole picture: there is also the movement that animated and still animates these bodies because the history continues and we live under no particular privileged conditions at any given time in this great process.

  

  Emile Argand
  • History
  • Picture
  • Construction

• The soul is the river of energy that animates who we are.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Soul
  • Energy
  • River