Internal Quotes
774 Internal quotes by 610 unique authors
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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few…
— Ellen G. White
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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
— Sarah Zettel
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Contrary to the utopian rhetoric of social media enthusiasts, the Internet often makes the jump from deliberation to participation even more difficult, thwarting collective action…
— Evgeny Morozov
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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
— James Madison
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God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He…
— Anne Lamott
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
— Gavin de Becker
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A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the…
— James Allen
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking.
— Donita K. Paul
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.…
— James Madison
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Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to…
— Alain de Botton
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Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.
— Voltaire
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
— George Washington
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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.…
— Aldous Huxley
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God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has…
— Alice Walker
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
— Markus Zusak
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So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?
— Louise Erdrich
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Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.
— Rebecca Solnit
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In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external…
— Pope John Paul II
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But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed,…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
— Annie Dillard
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise…
— Stephen Covey
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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human…
— H.G. Wells
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