Found Quotes - Page 39

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

We all have auras. But it's much easier to see the aura of someone who is in a state of samadhi or other profound state of awareness.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian

I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.

Without foundation, there can be no fashion.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

I went looking for trouble, and I found it.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

I thought, acted, and thereupon found myself removed.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.