Multitudes Quotes - Page 22

• Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World, Madness, Utopia

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• The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.

  Anna Brackett

  Country, Real, Mean

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• The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

  Laozi

  People, Suffering, Taxes

  Colin Bradshaw-Jones, Laozi, Lao Tzu (2006). “The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• Now are the days, of humblest prayer,
  When consciences to God lie bare,
  And mercy most delights to spare.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Now is the season, wisely long,
  Of sadder thought and graver song,
  When ailing souls grow well and strong.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  The feast of penance! Oh so bright,
  With true conversion's heavenly light,
  Like sunrise after stormy night!
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Oh happy time of blessed tears,
  Of surer hopes, of chast'ning fears,
  Undoing all our evil years.
  Oh hearken when we cry.
  Chastise us with Thy fear;
  Yet, Father! in the multitude
  Of Thy compassions, hear!

  Frederick William Faber

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Children, Father, Light

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• I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thinking, Tourists, Bombs

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is-next to hate, which is deeply self destructive. Worry is pointless. It is wasted mental energy. It also creates bio-chemical reactions which harm the body, producing everything from indigestion to coronary arrest, and a multitude of things in between.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Hate

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.175, Penguin

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• The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

  Philip Sidney

  May, Faults, Shame

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• The multitude is always wrong.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Always Wrong

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• Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with those others from a position of inferiority or helplessness. Teacher, doctors, social workers, or television producers possess more status than most parents.... As a result, the parent today isa maestro trying to conduct an orchestra of players who have never met and who play from a multitude of different scores, each in a notation the conductor cannot read.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Teacher, Children, Player

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• ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, Religious, Horse

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Power, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Civil Disobedience: Resistance to Civil Government”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.

  Louis Adamic

  Religious, Nice, Ocean

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• I'm a big believer in supporting the action on film with the appropriate music. It covers a multitude of sins. It's gotten me out of a lot of jams, over the years. So, music for me is a very big thing in films and I use it unashamedly.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Jam, Use

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: urbanmoms.ca

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• Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

  Victoria Beckham

  Sunglasses, Pairs, Sin

  "Victoria Beckham Drops the Posh Act". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2010.

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• To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless, but who is sinless except God? Who ever thinks about the multitude of his own sins in his heart never wants to make the sins of others a topic of conversation. To judge a man who has gone astray is a sign of pride, and God resists the proud. On the other hand, one who every hour prepares himself to give answer for his own sins will not quickly lift up his head to examine the mistakes of others.

  Gennadius of Constantinople

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• "Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

  Patti Smith

  Phrases, Impulse, Walt

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Apollo

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.

  Denis Diderot

  Christian, Men, Giving

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• In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• Him who trembles before the flame and the flood,
  And the winds that blow through the starry ways,
  Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood
  Cover over and hide, for he has no part
  With the lonely, majestical multitude.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Nature, Fear

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

  Herman Melville

  Friendship, Faithful, Acquaintance

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.149, Jazzybee Verlag

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