2178 Words Quotes for You to Enjoy

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You can't understand the words of Cocteau Twins songs, but their harmonies put you in a dreamlike state. Prince

You Words Harmonies State Songs Put Understand Twins

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore. Robert Rauschenberg

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The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal. Robert Richardson

Words Beauty Visuals Match His Goal Tarantino Rhythm Film

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate. Roberto Benigni

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Saint Augustine

You Experience Words Must Through Concepts Printed Go Experiences Here

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner. Saint Teresa of Avila

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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. Sara Teasdale

Wise Words Clear Steps Call Him Because Actions Whose Why

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. Seth Shostak

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When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience. Shekhar Kapur

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Turning feelings into words can help us process and overcome adversity. Sheryl Sandberg

Adversity Words Overcome Feelings Process Us Turning Help

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. Sidney Poitier

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Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. Sophocles

Wisdom Words Goes Fewest Often Much

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds. Sophocles

Life Words Care My Life More Make Than Deeds Illustrious

We can no longer take our own way of life for granted - we know that it may be challenged. And we know this, too - and know it ever more deeply - we know that freedom and democracy are not just big words mouthed by orators but the rain and the wind and the sun, the air and the light by which we breathe and live. Stephen Vincent Benet

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It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics. Steven Pinker

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