Pillars Quotes

• The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch.
  Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you.
  Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

  Merle Shain

  People, Sometimes, Enough

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• The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Truth, Freedom, Society

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1935, Delphi Classics

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• Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dream, Hope, Men

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• Be patient; patience is a pillar of faith.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Patient, Be Patient

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• Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, World, Love And Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2007). “How to See Yourself As You Really Are”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Average, Bridges, Worst

  "Modern lover". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• When you hear a word from God it resonates in the pillars of your soul.

  Karen Wheaton

  Soul, Your Soul

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• There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fear, Anger, Fire

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• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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• There are four pillars to happiness, which is the ultimate goal in life-to be happy. Health is first, family is second, home is third. That safe place where you can go to and regroup, be in a safe place by yourself start over. Those three things lead to the fourth pillar which is the hope and dream that tomorrow is going to be better. Without that you have not much at all.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Home, Starting Over

  Source: blitzweekly.com

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• I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

  Meryl Streep

  Life, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

  Phillips Brooks

  Soul, Way, Temples

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

  Rudger Clawson

  Heaven, Principles, Firm

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• A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.

  Lea Michele

  Home, People, Ships

  "Lea Michele Opens Up About Life After Cory" by Lizzy Goodman, www.elle.com. November 30, 2013.

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• In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

  Paul Kagame

  Development, Today, Investment

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• Typically, people allow differences and mistakes to lower their respect and value for other people. But you know the pillar of honor is strong in a relationship when you can look at the other person and say, “You are really different from me. It makes me sad when I see you making that choice. But I love you. I value you, I believe in you, and I am here for you in this relationship.

  Danny Silk

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• The love of God is one of the great realities of the universe, a pillar upon which the hope of the world rests. But it is a personal, intimate thing too. God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses, but men.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reality, Men, People

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.111, Fig

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• Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Fire, Cities

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• Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.

  Rebecca Ruter Springer

  Love, Life, Deeds

  Rebecca Ruter Springer (2009). “My Dream of Heaven: A Nineteenth Century Spiritual Classic”, p.21, Harrison House Publishers

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• Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Tools, Literature, Knows

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

  Leon Trotsky

  Stupidity, United States, Vulgarity

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• To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Brother, Sister In Law, Pigs

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Technology, Government, Innovation

  "President Sebastian Pinera: I want a First World Chile by 2020" By Claire Brennan, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, Dog, Flower

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Jacob's Room”, p.40, ReadHowYouWant.com

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