Pillars Quotes - Page 2

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.

We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

China has set its cultural industries as pillar industries.

There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

I wrote my will across the sky, in stars

The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

Our partnership has been built on four pillars The first pillar is peace. The second pillar is freedom. The third pillar is respect. The fourth pillar is cooperation.

Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say." This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again. "Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.