Filled Quotes
2267 quotes by 1552 authors
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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with…
— John Ruskin
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History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to…
— Jane Hirshfield
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For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are…
— John Calvin
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The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by…
— Georg Simmel
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Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled…
— Thomas Brooks
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as…
— Jack Kornfield
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Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest…
— Dorothy Day
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Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness,…
— Thomas Merton
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Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled…
— Brad Meltzer
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We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure…
— Rudolf Steiner
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If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs.…
— Tim Scott
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My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93…
— Betty Ford
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I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of…
— Lynn Abbey
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Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.
— Wayne Dyer
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Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is…
— N. T. Wright
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Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal…
— Donald E. Westlake
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Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of…
— William McKinley
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