Quotes About Spirit

Death is not goodbye.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

The history of Africans in America is brutal, but we have made art out of pain, sustaining our spirits with sunbursts of beauty, teaching ourselves how to rise the next day.

Del corpo ne abbiamo fatto un'ossessione, ma il corpo non siamo noi.

Viaggiando per il mondo a cercar di capirlo non ci sono migliori compagni di quelli che con lo stesso spirito han fatto la stessa strada e ne hanno scritto.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

We are washed clean by action and attitude, never by water alone.

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

The spirit world knows no time or place, nor does the spirit world communicate to us in language. It speaks to us through dreams, visions, signs, symbols, and feelings.

Una persona con pasión es mejor que cuarenta que solo están interesados.

As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.

As an actress I am totally open to offers as an individual and want to treat every opportunity with same spirit.

'Glee Project' and 'Glee' have the same spirit, but they're both harder in their own ways. With 'Glee Project,' there's more pressure because you're being judged in everything you do. When you film 'Glee,' you go to the studio and have an off day, and it's OK - you're still going to be there; you take as many chances as you need.

I just don't feel the Olympic spirit.

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

I want to carry in my heart forever the key word of the Olympics - 'passion.'

I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.

Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. Harry! If only you knew what Dorian Gray is to me!