Confucius Meaningful Quotes & Sayings

If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life — Vivian Stanshall

When people believe they have a good cause, the violence within them bursts forth unrestrained, as if their good angel has given permission for it to escape. — Fuminori Nakamura

Art is for everybody. — Keith Haring

When the angel spoke, God awoke in the heart of this girl of Nazareth and moved within her like a giant. He stirred and opened His eyes and her soul and saw that in containing Him she contained the world besides. The Annunciation was not so much a vision as an earthquake in which God moved the universe and unsettled the spheres, and the beginning and end of all things came before her in her deepest heart. And far beneath the movement of this silent cataclysm she slept in the infinite tranquility of God, and God was a child curled up who slept in her and her veins were flooded with His wisdom which is night, which is starlight, which is silence. And her whole being was embraced in Him whom she embraced and they became tremendous silence." -Thomas Merton — Thomas Merton

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty. — H.G.Wells

I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die. — Sarah Kane

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? — Ann Druyan

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write. — Tom Morello

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song. — Gordon Fee

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich. Both men were artificers, able to hold off the future by building a fragile present out of pieces of the past. — Robert D. Kaplan

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself. — Deepak Chopra

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century. — Geena Davis

I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious. — Brian Andreas