Sacred Quotes - Page 22

• Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Temples, Opinion

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.79, St. Martin's Press

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• Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Queens, Kings

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.525, Library of Alexandria

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Art, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• The United Nations will spearhead our efforts to manage the new conflicts (that afflict our world)... Yes the principles of the United Nations Charter are worth our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

  Colin Powell

  Our World, Effort, Honor

  Colin Powell's acceptance speech at the UN-USA Global Leadership Award, April 21, 1993.

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• This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

  Kenny Marchant

  Anniversary, Country, Years

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• In this new world, this day and forever, then, we are not only Thebans - we are all Stepsons. We are all one Sacred Band. If you will have us. And mine will fight by yours, henceforth, as brothers.

  Janet Morris

  Brother, Fighting, Forever

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.42, Paradise Publishing

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• The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Army, Blood

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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• The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Christian, Book, Grateful

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• These are the best reasons to do anything in life. People who say things like this are the kind of people who change the world. Who prevent the world from ending. Or at least they can change the inner world of a reader and that is a sacred power.

  Martine Leavitt

  People, World, Kind

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• Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.

  Benjamin Moser

  Relief, Passionate, Like Her

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• Yesterday, voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage, but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.

  Conan O'Brien

  Believe, Gay, Marijuana

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• The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[...]

  Werner Herzog

  Light, Directors, Different

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• The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.

  Starhawk

  Strong Women, Moving, Inspire

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Expression, Idols

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• Over the years of courtship and being together, we realized that there was no value left for anything. People just want to know what we're eating, which designer I'm wearing, who we've invited... Saif and I decided that we wanted to keep the purest part of our relationship sacred. We followed protocol by going out on to the terrace and waving at the media after officially registering the marriage, but they didn't need to know more than that.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Media, Years, People

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• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

  Isaac Hayes

  Religious, Past, Rights

  "Isaac Hayes Wants Out Of 'South Park' Due To Religious Jokes" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 13, 2006.

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• Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is mans right to have the earth to till with his own hands, the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

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• As disciples of Christ, we have a sacred obligation to uphold His laws and commandments and the covenants which we take upon ourselves.

  Robert D. Hales

  Law, Covenant, Christ

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• A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.

  Ivor Gurney

  Men, Fire, Soldier

  Ivor Gurney, Robert Kelsey Rought Thornton (1991). “Ivor Gurney: collected letters”, Carcanet Pr

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• For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

  Fabrice Luchini

  Language, Rich, Foreign Language

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• A woman with a mother heart has a testimony of the restored gospel, and she teaches the principles of the gospel without equivocation. She is keeping sacred covenants made in holy temples. Her talents and skills are shared unselfishly. She gains as much education as her circumstances will allow, improving her mind and spirit with the desire to teach what she learns to the generations who follow her.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Heart, Skills

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• I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Motivation, Missing, Would Be

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• We in Himalaya are facing a crisis of survival due to the suicidal activities being carried out in the name of development… The monstrous Tehri dam is a symbol of this… There is need for a new and long-term policy to protect the dying Himalaya. I do not want to see the death of the most sacred river of the world-the Ganga- for short-term economic gains.

  Sunderlal Bahuguna

  Suicidal, Names, Rivers

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• I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Blessed, Talent, Born

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

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