Spheres Quotes - Page 18

• In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Past, Soldier, Action

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• During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Rights, Arrogance

  Saddam Hussein (1981). “Statement of H.E. Mr. Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq, on the Iraq-Iranian conflict: before the third summit meeting of the Islamic Conference, 19-22 Rabi'i-al Awal, 1401, 25-28 January, 1981, Saudi Arabia”

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• The greater is our sphere of influence, the greater the responsibility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Responsibility, Sphere Of Influence, Greater

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• You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make faith in public spheres illegal, I am offended by that contradiction and want to talk about it as a comic.

  Brad Stine

  Country, Rights, People

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• Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Building Up, House, Building

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• In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

  Epictetus

  Lying, People, Trying

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• I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

  Molly Ringwald

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Two

  William Shakespeare (1852). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed: With the preface of Dr. Johnson, and a copious glossary. Complete in 1 volume”, p.118

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• Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Wall, Miracle, Atheism

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• Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Chakra Meditation, Focus

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• There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The other is a system of speculations about the unseen and the unknowable, which the human mind has no power to grasp or explain, and these speculations vary with every sect, age, and type of civilization. No one knows any more of what lies beyond our sphere of action than thou and I, and we know nothing.

  Lucretia Mott

  Lying, Civilization, Organized Mind

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• If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Voice, Islam

  "Moderate Muslims must roar, says Rushdie". www.cnn.com. November 3, 2001.

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• Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.

  Philip Schaff

  Religious, Party, Independent

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• I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Government, Racism

  "Desperate Establishment Launch Baseless 'Racist' Attacks On Rand Paul". Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.prisonplanet.com. May 20, 2010.

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• When the Founders thought of democracy, they saw democracy in the political sphere - a sphere strictly limited by the Constitution's well-defined and enumerated powers given the federal government. Substituting democratic decision making for what should be private decision making is nothing less than tyranny dressed up.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Political, Decision

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• Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Trying, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important of all created things. Man surveys the starry heavens and hears with his ears of the plurality of worlds; yet his religion bids him believe that his alone out of these innumerable spheres is the object of his master's love and sacrifice.

  Ouida

  Christian, Believe, Humble

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Principles, Bayonets, Firsts

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.27

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• Is there a rarer being,
  Is there a fairer sphere
  Where the strong are not unseeing,
  And the harvests are not sere;
  Where, ere the seasons dwindle
  They yield their due return;
  Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
  While the flames of youth still burn?

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Strong, Future, Yield

  Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900). “An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century”, Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, [190-]

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• If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Fate, Men, Justice

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• Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Leaving, Mind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.38

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• The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Melody, Highest

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• The heart of true womanhood knows where its own sphere is, and never seeks to stray beyond it!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Women, Heart, True Womanhood

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Moving, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.

  C.E. Morgan

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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