Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly. — Paul Pearsall Copy Share Image
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.” — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to… — William Rainey Harper Copy Share Image
The song and the drumming were like this: Behold, a sacred voice is calling you; All over the sky a sacred voice… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“I've always felt there is something sacred in a piece of paper that travels the earth from hand to hand, head to… — Robert Michael Pyle Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like… — John Updike Copy Share Image
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The purpose of relationship may not be what you think. If you are excited about forming a relationship based on what it… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
“[Jürgen Habermas' obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty] One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title 'Wild Orchids and Trotsky.'… — Jürgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The word God has become empty of meaning through thousands of years of misuse... By misuse, I mean that people who have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! … The supposed… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“but that's what growing up is all about- learning nothing is sacred in this world” — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
At the risk of sounding grandiose, I will say that, to me, rock 'n' roll is sacred. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
“All human life must be regarded as sacred, or one's own may be endangered as well.” — Ann Perry Copy Share Image
One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant. — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The cause didn't seem sacred to her. The war did not seem to be holy affair.” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin. — Eugen Sandow Copy Share Image
I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can… — Fred Small Copy Share Image
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it. — Aubrey Eben Copy Share Image
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland's blue sky. — Liu Yang Copy Share Image
Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We are birthed into sangha, into sacred community. It is called the world. — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work.” — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image