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Quotes About Spirit

Miss Barry was a kindred spirit, after all,' Anne confided to Marilla. 'You wouldn't think so to look at her, but she is. You don't find it right out at first, as in Matthew's case, but after a while you come to see it. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Let your spirit soar to heaven with it whenever you use it, like the bird who once bore it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
God is a spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth
~ L.M. Montgomery
So far, the ordinary observer; an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child of whom shy Matthew Cuthbert was so ludicrously afraid.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Ruhum karmakar???k olsa da bedenim gayet iyi.
~ L.M. Montgomery
cut off hanging by a strip of skin. He said he knew it was the spirit of his brother and that it was a warning he would die within nine days. He didn't, but he died two years after, so you see it was really true. And Ruby Gillis says—
~ L.M. Montgomery
I am well in body although considerable rumpled up in spirit
~ L.M. Montgomery
But the sparkle had come back to her eyes and a bit of the old ginger to her voice
~ L.M. Montgomery
Now, Anne Shirley, for pity's sake don't fly up into the air." The warning seemed not unnecessary, so uplifted and aerial was Anne's expression and attitude as she sprang to her feet, her face irradiated with the flame of her spirit.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I wrote a chapter. A burden rolled away from my spirit. And I was suddenly back in my own world with all my dear Avonlea and Glen folks again. It was like going home...
~ L.M. Montgomery
The Devil he blew an outward breath, for his heart was free from care.
~ Larry Niven
Presenciar o mistério da vida era suficientemente impressionante para evitar pensar na morte, em qualquer uma das suas manifestações: o abandono, a perda, o desaparecimento. Não, a única coisa que o seu espírito e o seu coração desejavam era festejar a vida.
~ Laura Esquivel
The thousands of dismembered corpses, lifeless, purposeless, weighed heavily on Malinalli's spirit. Her soul was no longer her own; it had been captured during the struggle by all those silent, defenseless, unspared bodies.
~ Laura Esquivel
Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.
~ Laura Whitcomb
Real ghosts are so much easier to deal with than the kind we carry around in our heads. Most people haunt themselves more effectively than any spirit.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them,—imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.
~ Laurence Sterne
sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes
~ Laurence Sterne
WE ARE THE HORNETS, HORNY, HORNY HORNETS!
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
~ Lawrence Durrell
man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
~ Lawrence Durrell
He would wake to see the towers and minarets printed on the exhausted, dust-powdered sky, and see as if en montage on them the giant footprints of the historical memory which lies behind the recollections of individual personality, its mentor and guide: indeed its inventor, since man is only an extension of the spirit of place.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Idle to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of mind, of thoughts; it is the simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
~ John Owen