Hymns Quotes - Page 6

• Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

  Jose Saramago

  Political, Moments, Enough

  "Still a street-fighting man". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2006.

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• Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering through my sheer joy in all that is beautiful, a sense of its creator . . . Only man can be truly ugly, because he has the free will to estrange himself from this song of praise. It often seems that he'll manage to drown out this hymn with his cannon thunder, curses and blasphemy. But during this past spring it has dawned upon me that he won't be able to do this. And so I want to try and throw myself on the side of the victor.

  Sophie Scholl

  Beautiful, Song, Spring

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• Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Tunes, Chess

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

  Karl Rove

  Education, People, Political

  The New Yorker, February 19, 2001.

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• Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

  Walker Percy

  Waiting, Catholic, Lord

  Walker Percy (2011). “Love in the Ruins: The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Deals

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• I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Powerful, Memorable

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• So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

  Henri La Fontaine

  Country, Shepherds, Slaughterhouses

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• We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn — the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Grateful, Heart, Voice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 290. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Three, World

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should we celebrate the memory of Peter and Paul, the supreme leaders of the pre-eminent company of the apostles? They are the fathers and guides of all Christians: apostles, martyrs, holy ascetics, priests, hierarchs, pastors and teachers.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Song, Teacher

  "The homilies".

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• American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

  Diane Wakoski

  Body, Celebrate Life, Poet

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• The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

  Max Baucus

  Unique, Political, World

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• The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

  Pablo Neruda

  Design, Typography, Ardent

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• ...we must all offer up a hymn of praise to the God... who is 'Lord of lords' (Deut. 10:17, Ps. 136:1, I Tim. 6:15, Rev. 17:14, 19:16)... Lordship is not simply a matter of being superior with respect to inferiors but a complete possession of all that is beautiful and good, and is furthermore a true and unshakable stability.

  Pope Dionysius

  Beautiful, Christian, Matter

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• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

  Dora Russell

  Spring, People, Democracy

  Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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• I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.

  Franco Zeffirelli

  Art, Work, Hands

  International Herald Tribune, March 21, 1990.

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• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Gerry Adams

  Winning, Way Forward, Goal

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Loss, Gun

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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• Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

  Aldous Huxley

  Music, Swim, Mysterious Ways

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet the song that inspires and lifts people's sights.

  Nick Clegg

  Song, Government, Sight

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• I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Might, Rooms

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About 'Room'". The New Yorker Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

  Bob Graham

  Voice, Nine, Democratic

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• Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

  Plato

  Art, Men, Epic

  Plato (2017). “Plato: The Complete Works including 31 Books (illustrated)”, p.433, Plato

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