Away Quotes
18621 Away quotes by 8383 unique authors
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Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own…
— David Brainerd
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray…
— Oswald Chambers
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While the vaccine discovery was progressive, the joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the…
— Edward Jenner
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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will…
— Aristotle
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I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day…
— Mark Twain
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must…
— Francis Bacon
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The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…
— John Arbuthnot
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because…
— Charles Kettering
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[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human…
— Irving Langmuir
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern…
— Edmund Burke
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Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.
— Arthur Helps
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Watch what you choose to do. For instance, someone might want you to smoke. Never forget that I told you - don't do it. Say…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive communities a seven-year-old…
— Rajneesh
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How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred;…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and…
— Harrison Ford
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I…
— Michelangelo
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Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the…
— Eckhart Tolle
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"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go…
— Eckhart Tolle
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If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion…
— Ken Ham
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Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
— Mark Twain
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
— Douglas Adams
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Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.
— Louis Pasteur
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My sisters were sent away because my mother thought they were boring. I was not boring.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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