Prompted Quotes

70 Prompted quotes by 63 unique authors

Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice… — Erich Schiffmann
Our being edified at conference depends on us. It becomes necessary that we prepare our hearts to receive and profit by the suggestions that may… — Lorenzo Snow
The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered… — John Berger
The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of… — John Drinkwater
The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism. — Amy Waldman
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. — George Eliot
That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar,… — Lascelles Abercrombie
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. — Stephen Gardiner
The Holy Eucharist is a need of the heart of Christ, just as it is a need of our hearts." "Sanctify and dedicate yourselves in… — Peter Julian Eymard
Our prayers at this time are prompted by the fact that the Governor of Illinois today is signing into Illinois law the redefinition of civil… — Thomas J. Paprocki
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality… — Ayn Rand
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution… — Matt Taibbi
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… — Mark Rothko
She's like a prisoner inside stone walls, and every day the walls get a little thicker, the doorways a little narrower." "And?" Eddis prompted. "Well,"… — Megan Whalen Turner
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are… — Mark Strand
The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide… — Shannon Hale
The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail straight out. There he encountered… — Barbara Mertz
I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped — Charlaine Harris
Anyone who knows he is loved is in turn prompted to love. It is the Lord himself, who loved us first, who asks us to… — Pope Benedict XVI
As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the… — Vladimir Nabokov
Your Majesty, you just-" Costis stopped. "Just what?" the king prompted wickedly. Nothing would induce Costis to say out loud that the king had almost… — Megan Whalen Turner

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