The Source Quotes

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Once you open your heart, you will start to absorb many things that come from the source - from Tao itself.

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.

We are scarcely apt to berate the source of enjoyment.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

I always go back to the original material. I want a good connection as the composer and writer of the score to the director and to the source material. It's really important.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

I finally realized the source of your mutual attraction," Saiman said, his voice dry. "You both think violence is foreplay.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

Just because you are the boss doesn't mean you are the source of all knowledge.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

If you do not choose to become a steady source of blissfulness for yourself and everything around you, you will remain an immature life.

Ignoring the source of creation and trying to conduct your life yourself is a terribly egoistic and ignorant attitude towards life.

Every great tradition has told you that you were created in the image and the likeness of the creative source. That means that you have God potential and power to create your world.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Then I found it: the source of the blood, the place where he'd been shot. 'Total?' I said, and I got a slight whimper. 'You have a boo-boo on your tail.

If you really thought about who you are, who God is, and how much thanks you owe Him, you would want to go to Mass. The Mass would become the source and center of your spiritual life.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

Do your homework and keep good files. Know the background and biases of your sources.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people.

Open source is important to our orgs as a talent pool; we need better representation of women.

The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

There is no particular source my stories come from. The stories always seem to be there waiting for me, though sometimes shrouded in mist and fog.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by the source.

You might be a redneck if your primary source of income is the pawn shop.

The humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

Not to mention the CIA which should be, I think, dissolved, it's of no use - a great source of mischief - I don't see any point to the FBI.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The White House is worried about Joe Biden's potential run for president, and a source says they fear that it wouldn't have the right outcome. That's right, they think he might win.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal.