Through Quotes

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example.

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

Get government out of our way, and let freedom and the spirit of the American people shine through.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.

Strong efforts may be made to deny the place, to silence the authentic, but the spirit of things will break through that silence.

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

If you can't go through it, find a way around it. Don't spend all your time banging your head.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.

CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.