My Soul Quotes - Page 25

• I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

  George Clooney

  Mean, Land, Ideas

  "What Drives George Clooney". Interview with David Gergen, parade.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Who I Am

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Patience, Anger, Frustration

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• My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Marriage, Wife

  "Matt Damon: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2012.

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• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

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• America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Country, Heart, America

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• I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Giving, Sick, Soul

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• I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Meditation, Waiting

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Lonely, Sweet, Soul

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• 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

  Euripides

  Soul, Tongue, Swearing

  Euripides (2015). “Hippolytus and the Bacchae”, p.25, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  Edie Falco

  Letting Go, Song, Kids

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• I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

  Michael Franti

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Religious, Sunset

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.175, Grove Press

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• What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Cute, Sad

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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.

  Ellie Goulding

  Writing, Heart, Sadness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

  Wavy Gravy

  Essence, Soul, Different

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Strength, Law, Curves

  The Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1964.

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• The Lord saved my soul.

  Steve Harvey

  Soul, Lord, Saved

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Believe, Umpires

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, August 11, 1890.

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• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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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.

  Barbara Hershey

  Anniversary, Soulmate, Sight

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• My soul is in good shape.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Soul, Shapes

  "Tales of Hoffman" by Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2000.

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• The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Hydrogen Bomb, Soul

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

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• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

  Aldous Huxley

  Fate, Soul, Literature

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

  James Joyce

  Ambition, Soul, Teeth

  James Joyce (1966). “Letters”

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