Quotes on Spirit

The city of Atlanta has always had a good spirit.

Author: Ivan Allen

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

Author: Henri Amiel

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

Author: Thomas Aquinas

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!

Author: Sholem Asch

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

Author: Frankie Avalon

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

Author: Dennis Banks

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

Author: Chris Barber

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Author: Sitting Bull

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Author: Martin Buren

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Author: Emily Carr

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Author: Mary Chesnut

The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

Author: John Darby

I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.

Author: Princess Diana

Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.

Author: Mary Eddy

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

Author: Jacques Ellul

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

Author: Peter Garrett

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

Author: Nikki Giovanni

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

Author: Graham Greene

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Author: Johann Hamann

Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?

Author: Benny Hinn

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Author: Homer

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Author: Franz Kafka

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit.

Author: Ken Kesey

I am very confident that the Spirit is with us.

Author: William Leahy

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

Author: Titus Livius

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

Author: Anne Macy

The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Author: Gustav Mahler

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

Author: Mark McCormack

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Author: Patrick McGoohan

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

Author: Ewan McGregor

I don't know whether it ever comes back to the same thing; it does return to the spirit of a previous period in some way, but it's different, it's new.

Author: Norman McLaren

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Author: John Milton

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

Author: Howard Nemerov

Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

Author: Larry Norman

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

Author: John Owen

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

Author: Martin Puryear

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

Author: Ernie Pyle

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.

Author: Theodore Roethke

And the spirit of Superman is great to have around.

Author: Brandon Routh

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Author: Karl Schlegel

The Spirit communicating to your spirit is the most effective and fundamental of communications. Write it down. As you write down impressions of the Spirit, more are given.

Author: Richard Scott

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me.

Author: Ron Silver

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Author: Charles Spurgeon

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

Author: Sara Teasdale

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.

Author: Lewis Thomas

All TV can do is capture the spirit of a book because the medium is so utterly different. But I'm very grateful for the readers that Masterpiece Theatre has undoubtedly brought me.

Author: Joanna Trollope

Your spirit is the true shield.

Author: Morihei Ueshiba

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

Author: Liv Ullmann

Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making.

Author: Wim Wenders

I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

Author: Devon Werkheiser

I believe in walking in the Spirit.

Author: David Wilkerson

Success is not measured by the strength of our steps, but by the resilience of our spirit.

Author: Olivia Parker