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'Every man has his price.' This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.

Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Christopher Columbus

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

Christopher Columbus

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

John Ruskin

The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.

William Cobbett

When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Blaise Pascal

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

Catherine Ponder

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Henry David Thoreau

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

Mitchell Burgess

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

Jean Paul Richter

Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.

Mark Mothersbaugh

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I don't know if people are out there searching in their souls for the Jenny Craig candidate.

Dennis Goldford

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.

Henry Miller

Chess is not for timid souls.

Wilhelm Steinitz

One hundred years ago, airline flight was reserved for only a few brave souls. Everyone flies (on planes) nowadays. The same will be true of space flight.

Gregory Olsen

Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.

John Donne

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Hunter S. Thompson

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Thomas Guthrie

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

Saint Patrick

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

[And what does this tell us about the woman whom President Bush has nominated for the Supreme Court?] I don't mean to sound flip, but I'm a very handicapped person, ... I am not able to read people's hearts and souls and brains . . . the way he can.

Pat Schroeder

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

It's difficult to argue, or suggest, we should cut someone's budget, ... when you're dealing with the hearts and souls of San Francisco residents. Particularly San Francisco residents that disproportionately fear the advent of another earthquake.

Gavin Newsom

To everyone who has gone out of the righteous way and has committed a crime in the name of religion and to everyone who belongs to that group that has done itself a disservice, everyone who has been captured in terror acts is given the chance to come back to God if they want to save their lives, their souls.

Prince Abdullah

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

George Eliot

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.

Dale E. Turner

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.

Alex Grey

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Christopher Love

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?

George Eliot

Anybody who's willing to jump in and retrieve it, go ahead and get it. I'm hoping to have a few brave souls that will dive in.

Father Gregory Horton

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. Desirous to avoid the pains of Hell, You will repent and join the Church, Parnell? How needless! -- Nick will keep you off the coals And add you to the woes of other souls. Jomater Abemy.

Ambrose Bierce

We were hoping the outcome would not be what it was. We know, though, what the scripture says about children: Their souls go straight to heaven.

Don Jordan

We pulled down the posting because we think only God can control souls.

Tao Ran

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our volunteers' hearts and souls are with these students and you can't pay for that. Money can't buy that kind of commitment.

Debra Conner

A sonnet is a moment's monument, -/ Memorial from the Soul's eternity/ To one dead deathless hour.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

Djuna Barnes

These are the times that try men's souls.

Thomas Paine

FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies -- they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire -- we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. .

Ambrose Bierce

When there is a question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.

Pope Pius XI

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

Sam Keen

Above the vulgar flight of common souls.

Arthur Murphy

I was already yours--the anti-urge, the mutilator of souls.

Jane Kenyon

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel - Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

Charles Stuart Calverley

Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.

Thomas Browne, Sr.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Even if we have a bad day or something, we just get up on stage and pour as much of ourselves into the show as possible. We just pour out our hearts and souls and let everything go.

Joe Beck

Through the Bible, we're trying to help people clean their lives up. In helping people get off drugs, in trying to teach them a trade, we're trying to rehabilitate not only their bodies, but their souls also.

Patrick Murray

. . . most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

M. F. K. Fisher

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

Karl Popper

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Harold Coffin

You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.

Ralph Abernathy

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Logan Pearsall Smith

These men literally are responsible for people's souls, so we take it very seriously if a priest indicates he can no longer function.

Susan Gibbs

Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.

Sir Thomas More

We're so used to seeing beauty outside all around us here. I want everyone to come in and see the beauty inside these artists' souls.

Bobbi Brown

I've always been amazed by the depth of people's responses in Pittsburgh. People in Pittsburgh seem to be strong readers and genuinely empathetic souls.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Cal Thomas

It's a party that we have protected with our blood and our souls and we will continue to do so.

Alaa Sanakra

They sacrificed. They paid the ultimate price. God bless their souls and God bless America.

Jack Clark

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Kathleen Norris

Just to see it on the news, to see people say, 'I'm lost' [it has an impact]. This guy says, 'I'm lost.' And his soul's lost. It has to touch you. If it doesn't, something's wrong with you.

Ryan Moats

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Bill Mccartney

It is time to come home, America. Time to look within our own borders and within our own souls. There are many questions to be answered and many missions to accomplish right here on our own soil.

Robert C. Byrd

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Robert D. Ballard

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Charles Ives

[Whatever started the slide,] the church needed a youth group. It needed children, ... And they just had these white- haired souls, bless their hearts.

Debra Peterson

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Comte De Mirabeau

Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Rebecca West

The army and police force give their officers flak jackets, but their souls are ripped apart with no protection whatsoever. The help does not come from the establishment but from private places.

Gil Kleiman

This is their job, and they're paid as we sell their work. And it's pure art. They have no formal training or knowledge. It's what comes out of their heads and their souls.

Cheryl Fey

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books.

William Ellery Channing

ELYSIUM, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians - may their souls be happy in Heaven!

Ambrose Bierce

The best part was being able to watch Pennywise and Rancid every day, and to have lunch with the bass player for Blessed Union of Souls. Everybody eats together; they don't treat anybody like a headliner or an opener. Everybody is just there to play. It's a great community.

Adam Krier

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Henry Norris Russell

You are either old souls who connect and share the same interest... or you are not.

Hayley Mills

First and foremost, the chaplain is there to save souls.

John O'connor

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

Katharine Lee Bates

Perceptive souls who have abandoned passion will not feed on flesh abandoned by life.

The Tirukural

Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.

Guillaume De Salluste

I think I had to live a life (before doing this). For some reason I have had success playing the suffering souls so that the last stages (of the Pope's life) were comfortable for me.

Jon Voight

Two Lost Souls.

Linda Lavin

A people who souls are so little tuned to joy.

John Wilkes

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

John Donne

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

Christina Of Sweden

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

This is the patent age of new inventions/ For killing bodies, and saving souls,/ All propagated with the best of intentions.

George Gordon Byron

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

And six little singing-boys, - dear little souls! / In nice clean faces, and nice white stoles.

Rev. R. H. Barham

God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of civil war, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisy and destruction of millions of souls.

Roger Williams

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

Anne Archer

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

Marcus Aurelius

Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.

Jose Marti

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

Paul Stanley

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

Octave Mirbeau

This is a grand test for our souls; can we remember and keep the soul-truth - no matter what our lives seem to be telling us? The truth that we are powerful, worthy and love - no matter what!

Joy Page

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Owen Felltham

... Race is an issue inside both parties. Both parties have to examine their souls in this.

Cliff May

In the comic book, the town is the main character. It's trying to rid itself of good souls -- the less good there is living in it, the more evil it gets.

Tilman Goins Jr.

We will have a peace garden in the back, similar to what happens at the Dexter Avenue Church. It will be place where they can go and recharge their souls.

Charlotte Sobel

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls.

Mary Schmich

In terms of power, speed and technique it was all there. We have trained to show our hearts and souls in skating and the crowd can feel that.

Alexei Tikhonov

We look into the souls of the people we work with. We find something that is a regional favorite, and we translate it for the American market.

Ron Post

If the churches can save their souls and we're trying to save their minds, then together we can save the whole person.

Andrew Ray

When you are studying to be a priest, saving souls is supposed to be what you're all about. You can see how that gets translated to saving kids.

Carl Cohn

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

Oswald Chambers

I empathize with need to get away, rest and heal. I want to create a sanctuary where other weary souls can escape from the rat race.

Terry Carter

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

William Pennington

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

Roland Allen

The No. 1 thing circulating in my head regarding Katrina's impact on the community, is how they will impact our city and how their culture will affect ours, ... We gave them a lot, but they came with a lot, not in possessions, but in their hearts, and their souls and their culture. I want people to see our new neighbors as new assets to our community. This will be great for our city.

Beverly Williams

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

We are available for any kids. We've got hispanic children. We've got white children, everyone ... I tell the kids that when God looks at us, we are all equal in his eyes. Our souls are all the same. That's what I want the kids to learn.

Karen Paquin

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Dr. Robert Greene

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

Henry Miller

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

We wish our music could reach every person in the world. When we play, we play with our souls. We want our souls to be one.

Albert Mazibuko

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Victor Hugo

We cannot legislate good judgment into the minds and hearts and souls of pilots, but we can erect some strong barriers.

James Oberstar

Great souls suffer in silence.

Friedrich von Schiller

Three restless souls can be at peace now.

David Evans

There were strong doubts about whether this was an appropriate thing for regional companies to be doing, ... Were they selling their souls for the price of enhancement money?

Anne Marie

My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.

John Scott

SCSL is not the same as open source, but it could mean big benefits for Sun. [SCSL] opens up the doors and lets vendors innovate who wouldn't consider it before because they didn't want to sell their souls to Sun. We expect to see a significant expansion of Java as a result.

Daryl Plummer

Our ministry is committed to the principle that there are no disabled souls in the kingdom of God.

Jeff Davidson

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Joy Page

...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same...

Emily Bronte

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,As they draw near to their eternal home.

Edmund Waller

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Edith Stein