Souls Quotes

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.