The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of…

I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate…

— Roseanne Barr

I've had frustrated storytelling juices that have been lying dormant for a long time, and I guess the documentary was a way of me…

— Eric Bana

Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach…

— Charles Caleb Colton

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later,…

— Michael Douglas

A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar…

— Khalil Gibran

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by…

— Antoni Tapies

I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart…

— Helen Keller

Women have to summon courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

— Alice Walker

Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices…

— Melinda Gates

When the human body is put under exceptional strain, a range of dormant genes in the DNA are expressed and extraordinary physiological processes are…

— K. Anders Ericsson

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if…

— Giacomo Casanova

“God helps them that help themselves.” When you begin to help yourself, which means to make the best of what is in yourself, you…

— Christian D. Larson

“Love is inside each of us... a dormant seed. Once it has been planted, whether in the soils or the fallows, it will take…

— A.G. Howard