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Soul Quotes


"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."


"I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it."


"After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for."


"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
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"It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyse before we can live happily in this world."


"Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body."


"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity."


"The corruption of the American soul is consumerism."


"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."


"Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand."


"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation."


"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."


"I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside."


"Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers."


"Memory is the personal journalism of the soul."


"Stevie Wonder's records introduced me to '70s soul when I was 12 or 13."


"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."


"With two leftover husbands to account for, my wicked soul has just about shriveled and died."


"But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?"


"If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar."


"I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream."



"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."


"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."


"I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future."
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