Souls Quotes

• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Poverty
  • Dead
  • Cities

• People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Country Music
  • Backstreet Boys

• Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Memories
  • Souls
  • Trance

• To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Knowledge
  • Religion
  • Souls

• The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Care
  • Souls
  • Magistrate

• Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.

  

  Brandon Massey
  • Book
  • Journey
  • Wilderness

• The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Door

• Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Blood
  • Souls
  • Harry

• Some people's affability is more deadly than the violence of coarser souls.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Violence
  • Souls
  • Coarser

• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

  

  Solon
  • Souls
  • Desires
  • Chastity

• Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Body
  • Evidence

• Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Memories
  • Disease
  • Desert

• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Respect
  • Confession
  • Appriciate

• Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Lifetime
  • Discovering
  • Monotony

• The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Accidents

• A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dream
  • Sympathies
  • Chord

• Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.

  

  Alice von Hildebrand
  • Parents
  • Souls
  • Revolted

• If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Bold
  • Souls
  • Designs

• Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

  

  Moliere
  • Souls
  • Cover
  • Bosom

• Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Souls
  • Abide

• By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Souls
  • Subjugate

• The main goal of divine Providence in allowing the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.

  

  Bartolomé de las Casas
  • Goal
  • Discovery
  • Conversion

• The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

  

  Socrates
  • Remember
  • Trust
  • Forgetfulness

• I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

  

  Socrates
  • Spring
  • Existence
  • Living

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