John Enoch Powell Quotes & Sayings

While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd. — Charlotte Bronte

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven's storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path. — Ilchi Lee

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that. — Picabo Street

Virtue is knowledge; man sins only from ignorance; he who is virtuous is happy. In these three basic forms of optimism lies the death of tragedy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A person is not the same as a toaster. — David Walton

My point about alcohol is that if you abuse something, it abuses you back. — Michka Assayas

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home. — Rachel Tucker

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary. — William Cranch Bond

I doubted that I would be able to sleep. There were too many things to digest, too many images churning in my mind, but the moment my head touched the pillow, I began to lose consciousness. I felt as if I'd been clubbed, as if my skull had been crushed by a stone. Some stories are too terrible, perhaps, and the only way to let them into you is to escape, to turn your back on them and steal off into the darkness. — Paul Auster