“Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper.” — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“Emerson said, “I am more of a Quaker than anything else. I believe in the still, small voice.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Mind the Light; come under Holy Obedience. pg.33 in Prayer and Worship” — Douglas Steer Copy Share Image
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. — Kyan Douglas Copy Share Image
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
I'm teaming up with Quaker and PLAY 60 to encourage kids to eat right, stay active and do something outside for at… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Wherefore give all diligence to the Spirit's motion and leadings, what it moves against, and what it leads to; for now will… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“What did it mean to give aid in a “Quakerly fashion”? How did Quaker ethics shape the Gadabouts’ collective memory of being… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I thought a lot about Nixon's personal history and the changes in America during his lifetime and tried to craft stories, which… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
