
— Frederick William Faber British hymn writer and theologian 1814 - 1863
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
If All the Skies.
— Frederick William Faber British hymn writer and theologian 1814 - 1863
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 545.
— Thich Nhat Hanh Religious leader and peace activist 1926
The Sun My Heart (1996)
Kontext: We have to remember that our body is not limited to what lies within the boundary of our skin. Our body is much more immense. We know that if our heart stops beating, the flow of our life will stop, but we do not take the time to notice the many things outside of our bodies that are equally essential for our survival. If the ozone layer around our Earth were to disappear for even an instant, we would die. If the sun were to stop shining, the flow of our life would stop. The sun is our second heart, our heart outside of our body. It gives all life on Earth the warmth necessary for existence. Plants live thanks to the sun. Their leaves absorb the sun's energy, along with carbon dioxide from the air, to produce food for the tree, the flower, the plankton. And thanks to plants, we and other animals can live. All of us—people, animals, plants, and minerals—"consume" the sun, directly and indirectly. We cannot begin to describe all the effects of the sun, that great heart outside of our body.
When we look at green vegetables, we should know that it is the sun that is green and not just the vegetables. The green color in the leaves of the vegetables is due to the presence of the sun. Without the sun, no living being could survive. Without sun, water, air, and soil, there would be no vegetables. The vegetables are the coming-together of many conditions near and far.
— Charles Kingsley English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819 - 1875
The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed
— Grover Norquist Conservative Lobbyist 1956
Grover Norquist via Twitter, 02 Jan 2016, 23:12 UTC. https://twitter.com/grovernorquist/status/683425783470239744.
2015
„If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!“
— Pietro Metastasio Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 April 1782) 1698 - 1782
Se a ciascun l'interno affanno
Si leggesse in fronte scritto,
Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,
Ci farebbero pietà!
Part I.
Giuseppe Riconosciuto (1733)
— David Attenborough British broadcaster and naturalist 1926
Closing lines
Life in the Undergrowth (2005)
— John Stuart Mill, buch On Liberty
Quelle: On Liberty (1859), Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
— Baldassarre Castiglione Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529) 1478 - 1529
Chi non sa che senza le donne sentir non si po contento o satisfazione alcuna in tutta questa nostra vita, la quale senza esse saria rustica e priva d'ogni dolcezza e piú aspera che quella dell'alpestre fiere? Chi non sa che le donne sole levano de' nostri cori tutti li vili e bassi pensieri, gli affanni, le miserie e quelle turbide tristezze che cosí spesso loro sono compagne?
Bk. 3, ch. 51; p. 216.
Souced, Il Libro del Cortegiano (1528)
— Anne Brontë, buch Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), A Word to the Calvinists (1843)
— Gregory Scott Paul U.S. researcher, author, paleontologist, and illustrator 1954
Gregory S. Paul (1988) Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster, p. 19
Predatory Dinosaurs of the World
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 v.Chr
„If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord.“
— Uthman Companion of Muhammad and third Rashidun Caliph 574 - 656
Jami al-Uloon wa'l-Hikm, p. 363
— Benjamín Netanyahu Israeli prime minister 1949
Speech at the Knesset at the end of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, as quoted in "Olmert: We will continue to pursue Hizbullah leaders" in The Globes (14 August 2006) http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000122795&fid=942
2000s, 2006
— Arthur Kenney Irish dean 1776 - 1855
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 557.
„p>The lust for power, which of all human vices was found in its most concentrated form in the Roman people as a whole, first established its victory in a few powerful individuals, and then crushed the rest of an exhausted country beneath the yoke of slavery.For when can that lust for power in arrogant hearts come to rest until, after passing from one office to another, it arrives at sovereignty? Now there would be no occasion for this continuous progress if ambition were not all-powerful; and the essential context for ambition is a people corrupted by greed and sensuality.</p“
<p>Ipsa libido dominandi, quae inter alia uitia generis humani meracior inerat uniuerso populo Romano, postea quam in paucis potentioribus uicit, obtritos fatigatosque ceteros etiam iugo seruitutis oppressit.</p><p>Nam quando illa quiesceret in superbissimis mentibus, donec continuatis honoribus ad potestatem regiam perueniret? Honorum porro continuandorum facultas non esset, nisi ambitio praeualeret. Minime autem praeualeret ambitio, nisi in populo auaritia luxuriaque corrupto.</p>
— Aurelius Augustinus, buch The City of God
as translated by H. Bettenson (1972), Book 1, Chapter 31, p. 42
The City of God (early 400s)
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1960, Speech at East Los Angeles College Stadium, Los Angeles, California
— Daniel Webster Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of State for three… 1782 - 1852
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)