Aspire Quote by Sheila Hancock

I'm not a good Quaker, really I'm not, but it's a lovely thing to aspire to.

— Sheila Hancock

As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military…

— Ned Rorem

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated…

— Anita Roddick

Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound…

— Jimmy Tingle

“QUAKER: Since God maintains direct accessibility with every human life and offers instant and uncomplicated guidance, the intervention of priests and ministers is unnecessary.…

— James A. Michener

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that…

— Benjamin Franklin

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was…

— Mike Berenstain

Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not…

— Thomas Paine

I was maybe 5 or 6, and my grandmother would begin sitting me in the Quaker meeting house. I asked my grandmother, 'What am…

— James Turrell

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom…

— Ram Dass

All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern…

— Storm Jameson

There is no way to find yourself until you discover how utterly to lose yourself.

— Rufus Jones