Faith & Spirituality Sayings

145 sayings found from the Modern era from 145 authors

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

— Marilyn Monroe Unknown
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Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

— Marlon Brando 1960s
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The lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1892
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

— John Keats 1819
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I don't see any God up here.

— Yuri Gagarin 1961
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

— George Orwell 1937
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I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.

— Keith Haring 1989
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

— Susan B. Anthony 1896
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I’m for anything that gets you through the night—be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

— Richard Pryor 1975
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Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.

— Lenny Bruce 1961
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The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay with courage to behold restless day and count it fair.

— Amelia Earhart 1935
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I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

— Charles Lindbergh 1948
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When a liberal is abused, he says, 'Thank God they didn't beat me.' When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn't kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

— Vladimir Lenin Early 20th century
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Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye shall have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.

— Max Planck 1932
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The things we see are in our soul, not in the things. If Velazquez copies a photograph as best he can, he will get a Velazquez. If a fool copies a photograph exactly, he gets foolishness. So there is no need to worry. Personality is absolutely imposs…

— Salvador Dali 1970s (approx.)
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I began the revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I would do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

— Fidel Castro 1959
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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

— John F. Kennedy 1961
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

— Benjamin Disraeli 1835
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The great question that has never been answered, and which I myself have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

— Sigmund Freud 1932
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

— Franz Kafka Unknown
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