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Quotes About Source

The Jew is that sacred being, who has brought down from Heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love? What is love?" he thought. "Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He used to say that there were only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition; and that there were only two virtues: activity and intelligence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But that's just the aim of civilization—to make everything a source of enjoyment.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
~ Leo Tolstoy
L'immaginazione è la prima fonte della felicità umana.
~ Leopardi , Giacomo
To see men suffer had become for the former equestrienne a source of sensual delight.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
But let us never forget that the source of helping other people must be victorious suffering.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
~ Leverett Saltonstall
You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.
~ lewis c s ii
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
~ Edmund Morgan
In the world of digital currencies, the social network around open source projects has become a critical test bed for ideas, products, services, and early users.
~ Meltem Demirors
The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'
~ Ayelet Waldman
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
~ Laura Riding
We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
~ Sam Wood
We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
~ Marco Rubio
the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity.
~ Jared Diamond
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point.
~ Abraham Lincoln
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
~ Al Yankovic
Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow
~ Albert Einstein
This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.
~ Unknown
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
On the whole, I now see my work as being an expression of my spiritual life and, because I look at it that way, I have a different centre. I go through the stress and pressure, but I think I'm lucky because I come from a different source point.
~ Forest Whitaker
Food is a party; it's exciting. It should be a source of entertainment and nourishment. And just do everything you can to not let food become anything but fun. Let it be a source of pleasure, not anxiety or neuroses or stress.
~ Andrew W.K.