Theme Quotes
698 quotes by 612 authors
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"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." This sentence alone would save mankind if all books and prophets were lost. This…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our…
— Craig Newmark
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Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.
— Merle Woo
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Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
— Hilary Mantel
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
— William Butler Yeats
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.
— Garet Garrett
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Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been…
— Mary McCarthy
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with…
— Max Beerbohm
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't…
— Byron Katie
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
— Alan Price
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Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.
— Max Lucado
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I've explored a variety of directions and themes over the years. But I think in my painting you can see the signature of one artist,…
— Helen Frankenthaler
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
— Richard Winters
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Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard…
— Lucille Roybal-Allard
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Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result…
— John Eccles
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The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.
— Bede Griffiths
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What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality…
— Hans Rookmaaker
Who Wrote These Theme Quotes
612 authors contributed a total of 698 Theme Quotes, led by these top contributors: