American Transcendentalism Quotes

#1. The wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

Catherine L. Albanese

#2. There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

Fred Tomaselli

#3. My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.

George Sarton

#4. People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Dominick Dunne

#5. If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. I don't push my luck. I don't worry about the results and therefore everything seems to work out well. That's something I've learnt over the years. The whole thing about the acting business is that it's a hit-or-miss game so I keep my distance from it.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. Father, you know us in secret, and you know all our secret places.
What we do to benefit your kingdom will not be lost if it is not seen by others,
for you see and you reward according to your grace and mercy.
Strengthen us to do good works, visibly or invisibly, always in your name.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.

Aristotle.

#10. 1. Feed off you.
2. Replenish you.
3. Repeat.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. I have a full grown, semi-nude man bound with duct tape in my truck and I was trying to get out to the desert to bury him. How do I get to 5 South?

Johnny Knoxville

#12. Never Let Your Inner Mental Peace Be Disturbed By External Circumstances.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#13. Trotsky's view that the gap between aspiration and achievement will be a permanent feature of human life, so that tragedy will be permanently relevant to the contemporary human experience, seems far more faithful to Marx's view ...

Alasdair McIntyre

#14. If you have ever sin, you will appreciate the grace of salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Cormac McCarthy