Spirits Quotes

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

Both classically and romantically-minded spirits - in as much as these two species always exist - occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

In the stream - mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.

Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

Prison - far from breaking our spirits - made us more determined to continue with this battle until victory was won.

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.