Sacred Quotes - Page 33

• The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Jobs, Men, Littles

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• Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.

  Oswald Mosley

  Brother, Light, Flames

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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
  Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
  And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
  A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
  Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
  A mystic child is set in these still hours.
  I keep this time, even before the flowers,
  Sacred to all the young and the unborn.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Spring, Flower

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• Most of us need to be reminded that we are good, that we are lovable, that we belong. If we knew just how powerfully our thoughts, words, and actions affected the hearts of those around us, we'd reach out and join hands again and again. Our relationships have the potential to be a sacred refuge, a place of healing and awakening. With each person we meet, we can learn to look behind the mask and see the one who longs to love and be loved.

  Tara Brach

  Healing, Heart, Hands

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• There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Love, Passion, Secret

  Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr

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• If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.

  Ronald L. Buckwalter

  Exercise, Government, Law

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• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Class, Democracy

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• Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

  Martin Buber

  Relationship, Space, Our Relationship

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• To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.

  Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

  Blessed, Waiting, Add

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• Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army of the enemy, routed it at every point, and now it flies, inglorious in retreat before our victorious columns. We have taught them a lesson in their invasion of the sacred soil of Virginia.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Army, Virginia

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• We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Adoption, Looks

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• We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could be apprehended. The tree was the framework within which one "flew" to these Otherworlds. And since the exploration of sacred space was also a quest into the nature of human consciousness, the tree was regarded as an image of the ways in which we, humans, are constructed psychically. It was a natural model for our deepest wisdom, our highest aspirations.

  Brian Bates

  Odin, Space, Tree

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• The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

  Elie Wiesel

  Shoes, Holocaust, Entering

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Men, Rights, Law

  Look magazine, March 17, 1959.

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• Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Despair, Unseen

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Gray, Tobias Smollett, George Gilfillan (1855). “The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes”, p.24

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• Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

  Maude Barlow

  Health, Air, Water

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• It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

  Demi Moore

  Mother, Moving, Heart

  "Demi Moore says she is divorcing Kutcher", www.cnn.com. November 18, 2011.

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• A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.

  A. R. Gurney

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

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• RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Exercise, Republic, Fables

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2491, Delphi Classics

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• Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Family, Men, Cities

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Ego, Pests

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• I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Religion, Secular

  Charles R. Swindoll (2007). “Wisdom for the Way: Wise Words for Busy People”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Animal, Men, Views

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs he's teaching the angels right now? Good luck God! You've got your hands full this time.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, Teaching, Good Luck

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