The Source Quotes

... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.

... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.

Instead of fixating on the physical aspects of aging, it's good to contemplate the deeper source of our anxiety. That can be liberating.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different.

You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

That is the greatest source of my anxiety on this film [The Hobbit], is that I'm going to be lynched.

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!

Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.

Enlightenment doesn't mean you know anything. It doesn't mean you don't know anything. It means that you've returned to the source, consciously.

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana.

The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.

The Christian Theology Reader brings the best primary sources to the theological inquirer.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

We're looking at available sources, all sources, in the area of additional energy.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.

Like an odorless gas, [inequality] pervades every corner of the United States and saps the strength of the country's democracy. But it seems impossible to find the source and shut it off.

Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

When someone is buying a sample-based album, they are investing in the concept of that album. If they really like the original source material, they can go buy it.

Good live theater disturbs molecules. You create an energy source around yourself and it alternates between you and the audience. Anybody who sees live theater should come out a little rearranged.

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment.

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

Silence is the medium of source between you and your ego consciousness.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

My elaboration of the story always conforms to the reality at its source. It is always close to the world, the life, the reality it describes. No matter where I go, I’m still holding up a mirror.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.