Mortals Quotes · Page 7

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.

— Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to…

— Janet Morris

There is nothing assured to mortals.

— Horace

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or…

— Manly Hall

The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

— Charles Baudelaire

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

— Horace

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence…

— Anonymous

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's…

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

Let us be mindful of the foundational precepts our Heavenly Father has given to His children that will establish the basis of…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

— Walter Lippmann

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

— Ellis Peters

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

— Samuel Parr

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

— Lord Byron

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre…

— Jim Carrey

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

— Voltaire

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the…

— Adolf Hitler

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the…

— Thomas Aquinas

What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?

— Flora Thompson

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour…

— Idries Shah

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them…

— Aeschylus

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope.

— James E. Faust

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know That minds and the light souls of all that live Have mortal birth…

— Lucretius