Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
Those who like tranquility and dislike clamor tend to avoid people to seek quietude. They do not know that when one wishes… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
Africans sensed in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred or their clamor for an invincible Savior,… — Lamin Sanneh Copy Share Image
I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I came from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its wreckage and terrible ruin. It is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America… — James Tate Copy Share Image
Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Only when all images of Earth are hushed and the clamor of the senses be stilled, and the soul has passed beyond… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
When the people clamor to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual… — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
“Let us look at the things we don’t see, let us listen to the echo of the sound behind the clamor and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find… — James F. Byrnes Copy Share Image
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamor of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When liberals clamor for 'diversity,' they don't necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Rap, rap! upon the well-worn stone, How falls the polished hammer! Rap, rap! the measured sound has grown A quick and merry… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
It may sound paradoxical, but however tight our schedule, however many things clamor to be done, we don't need to hurry. If… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
