Mortals Quotes - Page 26

• Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

  Ruby Dee

  People, Giving, Tunes

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• My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music still in us. Let us rather use this precious mortal probation to move confidently and gloriously upward toward the eternal life which God our Father gives to those who keep his commandments.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Moving, Giving

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• One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.

  Klaus Mann

  Wind, Today, Becoming

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• Just because somebody happens to disagree with you about something doesn't mean that they become your mortal enemy and that you should try to destroy them and destroy their life and destroy their family.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Enemy, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.

  Colleen Houck

  Spring, Flower, Essence

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• One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Trying, Speech, Intangible

  Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.194, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Mean, Race, Rays

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• I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well.

  Brian Tee

  Kids, Games, Saws

  "‘Mortal Kombat Legacy 2’ actor Brian Tee talks darker take on Liu Kang". Hero Complex interview, herocomplex.latimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sister, God, Women

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• Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Letters, Remember

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.419, e-artnow

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• Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by
  themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for
  ordinary mortals to attempt to range them in order of merit.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Order, Class, Ordinary

  Eric Temple Bell (1945). “Men of Mathematics”

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• I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer. And perhaps with better cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

  Aldo Leopold

  Years, Two, Mountain

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Law, Would Be

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• I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

  Ida Tarbell

  Afterlife, Effort, Mind

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.23, Ravenio Books

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• [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

  Ida Tarbell

  Christian, Business, Fall

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• We shall never want to serve God in our real and secret hearts if He looms in our subconscious mind as an arbitrary Dictator or a Spoil-sport, or as one who takes advantage of His position to make us poor mortals feel guilty and afraid. We have not only to be impressed by the "size" and unlimited power of God, we have to be moved to genuine admiration, respect, and affection, if we are ever to worship Him.

  John Bertram Phillips

  Sports, Real, Heart

  John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

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• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Home, Men

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• Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Stars, Prayer

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• A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Education, Power, Enjoy

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• If mortals wait until the gods remake the world to their liking to be happy, they are already in hell.

  Bette Lord

  Waiting, World, Hell

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• I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Walter Raleigh (1736). “The History of the World in Five Books”, p.5

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• Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

  Walter Scott

  Should Have, Soldier, Abuse

  Sir Walter Scott (1832). “Talisman”, p.300

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• No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

  Walter Scott

  Woe, Scene

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Poetry of Sir Walter Scott: The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, The Lady of the Lake, Translations and Imitations from German Ballads, Marmion, Rokeby, The Field of Waterloo, Harold the Dauntless, The Wild Huntsman…”, p.636, e-artnow

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