Ghost Quotes - Page 33

• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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• Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Doe, Needs

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• On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Halloween, Night

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• I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

  David Cronenberg

  Religious, Real, Believe

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• For the sacrament to be a spiritually cleansing experience each week, we need to prepare ourselves before coming to sacrament meeting. We do this by deliberately leaving behind our daily work and recreation and letting go of worldly thoughts and concerns. As we do, we make room in our minds and hearts for the Holy Ghost.

  Robert D. Hales

  Letting Go, Heart, Leaving

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• In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?

  R. C. Sproul

  Prayer, Why Not, Want

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• The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.

  Robert Montgomery

  Love Is, People, Alive

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• People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Men, People

  Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

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• Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues, a senator drunk on filibuster. I've got Tourette's. My mouth won't quit, though mostly I whisper or subvocalize like I'm reading aloud, my Adam's apple bobbing, jaw muscle beating like a miniature heart under my cheek, the noise suppressed, the words escaping silently, mere ghosts of themselves, husks of empty breath and tone.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reading, Heart, Artist

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.11, Vintage

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• The plan of God for your life is that you should be held captive by His power, doing that which you in the natural world would never do, but that which you are forced to do by the power of the Holy Ghost moving through you.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Moving, World, Life Is

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• I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

  Conor McPherson

  Thinking, Roots, Spirit

  "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. March 25, 2010.

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• I saw a ghost when I was staying at Dartington Hall in Devon in the 1960s. I think there are many different kinds of entities, some are scary and some aren't, it depends on the state of mind you're in when you are confronted. I found that quite scary because it appeared when I was asleep, so it was quite a shock, but the other ones I've encountered, I didn't find scary. I have a lot more understanding of them.

  Martin Shaw

  Thinking, Scary, Understanding

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.

  Bennett Cerf

  Believe, Discovery, Soul

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• The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

  Bennett Cerf

  Ghost Stories, Differences, Effectiveness

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• When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sleep, Reality, Disappear

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• I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage.

  Harold B. Lee

  Jesus, Knowing, Sight

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• The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

  H. L. Mencken

  Son, Government, Long

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Persistence, Ego

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• Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, War, Honor

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• Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything.

  Danny Garcia

  Crazy, Fighter, Honest

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• The entrance into the Kingdom is through the panging pains of repentance crashing into a man's respectable goodness; then the Holy Ghost, who produces these agonies begins the formation of the Son God in the life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Pain, Son, Men

  Oswald Chambers, Kermit Zarley, James R. Adair, Harry Verploegh (1992). “101 days in the Gospels with Oswald Chambers: including selections from The Gospels interwoven in the words of the New International Version by Kermit Zarley”, Victor

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• I have the strangest time to get cast in anything. 'Ghost' was the same thing. Six months I had to wait for them to decide they had seen everybody possible. Why not? What limits me? I'm black? Oh, am I black?

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Waiting, Black, Six Months

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• I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

  James Purdy

  Home, Past, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.

  Jaco Van Dormael

  Real, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Over It, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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