Guardian Quotes - Page 10

• It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

  Barbara Holland

  Home, Heart, Cat

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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• The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex; for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Girl, Sex, Women

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• All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it has some density and body after all, since in reality only God is truly immaterial and incorporeal.

  John of Damascus

  Angel, Reality, Density

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• As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.

  Thomas Szasz

  Religious, Next, Physicians

  "The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1970.

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• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Determination

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• There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.

  Jill Talbot

  Writing, Trying, Failing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Angel, Men, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

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• The raven once in snowy plumes was drest,
  White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast,
  Fair as the guardian of the Capitol,
  Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl
  His tongue, his prating tongue had changed him quite
  To sooty blackness from the purest white.

  Ovid

  Ravens, White, Swans

  Ovid (1833). “Ovid”, p.56

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• Eternal blessings crown my earliest friend,
  And round his dwelling guardian saints attend.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friends, Blessing, Dwelling

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres”, p.22

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• Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

  Martin Heidegger

  Home, Men, Thinking

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• You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy,” a voice said, but it was far away from her.

  Scott Speer

  Angel, Voice, Far Away

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• What kind of guardian are you? Shouldn't you have gone to the bathroom with him?" Isabelle demanded. Jordan looked horrified. "Dudes," he said, "do not follow other dudes to the bathroom.

  Cassandra Clare

  Gone, Jordan, Bathroom

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1547, Simon and Schuster

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• Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

  Frank Miller

  Angel, Names, Feet

  Frank Miller (1995). “A dame to kill for: a tale from Sin City”

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• I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about Google's role in acceding to the Chinese government's demands to censor search results. Google says that it is better to have a hampered internet than no internet at all. I believe that if the Chinese people were threatened with no Google, they might even rise up and demand free speech - free search and links - from their regime. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Believe, People, Google

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. Google lives and profits by free speech and must use its considerable power to become a better guardian of it.

  Jeff Jarvis

  Google, Wish, Realizing

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Army, Thinking, People

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• Some think we each have a guardian angel while others think we don't have an assigned guardian angel, while yet others think God at times - but not always and not by assignment to each of us - sends an angel on a mission of guarding. The Bible's evidence that each of us has a specific, assigned guardian angel is not as solid as some think, so I'm with those who think sometimes God sends guardian angels but that we don't have a specific guardian angel.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Thinking, Guarding

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.

  Samuel Adams

  Liberty, Unions, Constitution

  Speech about the Declaration of Independence, www.samuel-adams-heritage.com. August 01, 1776.

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• Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.

  Steve Almond

  Football, Son, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The New York Times and The Guardian came out and said, "Hey, clemency for Snowden." But for me, the key - and I've said this from the beginning: it's not about me. I don't care if I get clemency. I don't care what happens to me.

  Edward Snowden

  New York, Keys, Care

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!

  John Vianney

  Angel, Soul, Holy

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• The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

  John Vianney

  Book, Writing, Angel

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• If it was a biopic about Glenn Greenwald, I would have immersed myself more fully in his personal life and gotten to know him as much as I could, but because it was much more about his relationship to this particular situation, to The Guardian, to Laura Poitras, and to Ewen MacAskill, and Edward Snowden, I was able to really learn a lot about him from reading his book and reading his many articles and accounts of that time.

  Zachary Quinto

  Reading, Book, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We, in the New York Times, have not yet figured out how to grow our international readership. We started a website in China, which the Chinese government has blocked, but it has a pretty healthy readership. The Guardian, for instance, has gotten tremendous growth through its website in the US. We have to figure out how to go after readership in different parts of the world.

  Dean Baquet

  Healthy, Growth, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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