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Quotes About Source

A pure fountain gives pure water
~ Cassandra Clare
I saw something last night-a flash of power from an unexpected source. I can't jump to conclusions - I've been looking and waiting and watching for too long to make a mistake. But in my guy I feel she's here. She's here and she has power. I need to get closer to her.
~ Cate Tiernan
When the French need a solution to a particular problem, they tend to consult one source, not fifteen different friends or chat-room chums. This has the effect of cutting down on anxiety—and does wonders for just about every aspect of parenting.
~ Catherine Crawford
I trust you are enjoying your stay in our castle?" I asked at last. "Would that I were, Your Highness. But I am afraid my sleep last night was quite troubled. This morning I identified the source of my bruises" – here he reached into a pocket of his waistcoat – "as a pea that had been tucked beneath my mattress.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
I, too, am in contact with the source of that good. The divine equivalent of that good is now on its way to me, and I gratefully accept it. My own similar, God-appointed blessings now appear. They are satisfying and appropriate and for this I give thanks.
~ Catherine Ponder
8. Santa Claus is concerned about the problem of Arctic ice. The ice is the spouse of the elves, and she is sick. She is the primary source of their magic, as the elves cannot be separated from the place where they live. For many years now, this is all they have asked for for Christmas: that the ice should come back
~ Catherynne M. Valente
place those files into a subdirectory of the directory containing the source file, named doc-files.
~ Cay S. Horstmann
The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for "source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of character, without opinion." In
~ Geraldine Brooks
Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
~ Glenn Beck
Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.
~ Glenn Beck
Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
~ Glenn Meade
Because aircraft spares are incredibly expensive, and in the case of older aircraft hard to source, the black-market in aviation spares is highly profitable. One head of a counterfeit parts ring said she had moved on from distributing drugs to aircraft parts, simply because it was much more lucrative.
~ Glenn Meade
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. Scholarly language may be so theoretical that it obscures the source of feminism in women's lived experience.
~ Gloria Steinem
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own
~ Goethe Wolfgang
Can we expect peace and prosperity, harmony and goodwill, when we turn our backs on the Source of our strength?
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
What was it about disfigurement, however arbitrary the source, that led the mind to underestimate, even dismiss the victim …
~ Gordon Dahlquist
The deviation of Man from the state in which he was originally placed by Nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of Disease.
~ Edward Jenner, M.D., 1800
So the bottom line is that home centers are even worse than lumberyards as a source for lumber. The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.
~ Dave Barry
Weamish looked here and there to discover the source of the call. Observing Twango and Soldinck, he uttered a wild cry in which defiance seemed mingled with mirth. That is at best an ambiguous response, said Soldinck.
~ Jack Vance
There was no indication either of complaints by the villagers or of the source of such events. Billy had commented on the fires, saying, "Perhaps it's all a coincidence, Miss," to which they had then said, in unison, "Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
That's the trouble with people—they cherish their comforts, but they don't want to know where they come from.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Therefore we will not listen to the source itself in order to learn what it is or what it means, but rather to the turns of speech, the allegories, figures, metaphors, as you will, into which the source has deviated, in order to lose it or rediscover it—which always amounts to the same.
~ Jacques Derrida
As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.
~ James Allen
Thought is the fountain of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain (source) pure, and all will be pure
~ James Allen