(729 quotes found)
“Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?”
Charles de Lint
“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”
Martin Buber
“It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.”
Will Smith
“Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!”
William Allingham
“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.”
Sam Walton
“The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.”
Wally Lamb
“I don't even think that you can call Iron Maiden 100% real metal. Iron Maiden is beyond that and always has been. That is one of the things that America has always had a problem with, but right now we might be moving to a point where by America may actually understand what Maiden is all about. We'll see.”
Bruce Dickinson
“When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.”
Krzysztof Kieslowski