Souls Quotes

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

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

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.

Chess is not for timid souls.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

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.

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.

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.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

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.