Soul Quotes
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
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I get up, I get down All my world turns around Who is right? Who is wrong? I don't knowI've got pain in my heart Got a love in my soul Easy come, but I think Easy goI need you so Although times I move so slow
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We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.
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For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
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Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
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A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.
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When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.
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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
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I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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There's another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.
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There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
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Rewards and punishments, to speak frankly, are the desk of the soul, that is, a means of enslaving a child's spirit, and better suited to provoke than to prevent deformities.
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Even then take heart! The Lord is certainly nearby. Hold fast to the support of the true living faith. Things will be fine. But it is unbelievable to the poor soul in its tortured state that this unbearable darkness could ever turn into light.
