External Quotes

896 quotes by 617 authors

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the… — Wesley L Duewel
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law… — Leo Tolstoy
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann
Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May… — Plato
Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. — Baruch Spinoza
Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in… — Dalai Lama
Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective… — Jean Cocteau
I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to… — Vincent Van Gogh
Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you… — Chogyam Trungpa
Be selective about your external influences. Your multi-dimensional brain is influenced by everything you see, hear, read, smell, touch, feel or say. — Brian Tracy
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… — David Hockney
There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity...… — Chogyam Trungpa
External silence helps to achieve inner silence. — Meher Baba
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul. — William Mountford
The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. — Martin Seligman
We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external… — Brenda Ueland
Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other… — David Steindl-Rast

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