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“All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.”
“All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.”
“All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die.”
Source: Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
“All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.”
“All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.”
Source: Maeterlinck and I
“All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.”
“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.”
“All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.”
“All the governments just want to have more power when it comes to economic espionage, diplomatic manipulation and political influence.”
“All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.”
Source: Christian Love and It's Fruit
“All the great achievements utilizing abstract and concrete intelligence and the ability to concretize great ideas, projects and plans are by-products of the stimulation and empowerment brought by the Soul or the Spirit to the incarnated person.”
Source: Hidden Dangers of Meditation and Yoga: How to Play with Your Sacred Fires Safely
“All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.”
“All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.”
“All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.”
“All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today”
“All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.”
“All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.”
“All the great countries are at odds with one another over something, and yet if they don't cooperate they're going to blow up.”
“All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.”
“All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.”
Source: Minority Report
“All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.”
Source: A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People
“All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.”
“All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.”
Source: The Essential Rudolf Steiner
“All the great groups that stood about the Cross represent in one way or another the great historical truth of the time; that the world could not save itself. Man could do no more. Rome and Jerusalem and Athens and everything else were going down like a sea turned into a slow cataract. Externally indeed the ancient world was still at its strongest; it is always at that moment that the inmost weakness begins. But in order to understand that weakness we must repeat what has been said more than once; that it was not the weakness of a thing originally weak. It was emphatically the strength of the world that was turned to weakness and the wisdom of the world that was turned to folly.
In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend, founded upon fallen Troy and triumphant over fallen Carthage, had stood for a heroism which was the nearest that any pagan ever came to chivalry. Rome had defended the household gods and the human decencies against the ogres of Africa and the hermaphrodite monstrosities of Greece. But in the lightning flash of this incident, we see great Rome, the imperial republic, going downward under her Lucretian doom. Scepticism has eaten away even the confident sanity of the conquerors of the world. He who is enthroned to say what is justice can only ask:
‘What is truth?’ So in that drama which decided the whole fate of antiquity, one of the central figures is fixed in what seems the reverse of his true role. Rome was almost another name for responsibility. Yet he stands for ever as a sort of rocking statue of the irresponsible. Man could do no more. Even the practical had become the impracticable. Standing between the pillars of his own judgement-seat, a Roman had washed his hands of the world.”
Source: The Everlasting Man
“All the great guitarists have a spirit-a way they play and don't play.”
“All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.”
“All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have your own individuality. Don't be a part of the crowd; don't be a wheel in the whole mechanism of a vast society. Be individual, on your own. Live life with your own eyes; listen to music with your own ears." But we are not doing anything with our own ears, with our own eyes, with our own minds; everything is being taught, and we are following it.”
“All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex.”
“All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.”
“All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.”
“All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.”
“All the great organizations in the world, all have a sense of why that organization does what it does.”
“All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.”
“All the great performers I have worked with are fueled by a personal dream.”
“All the great pleasures of life are silent.”
“All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.”
“All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.”
“All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.”
“All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.”
Source: All Religions are True
“All the great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ignorant and as indelicate as generals, because they feel secure of impunity.”
“All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. Alas, poor Yorick, that's about death. And in Romeo and Juliet everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.”
“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations
“All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.”
“All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.”
Source: Everyday Wisdom
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“All the great things are simple.”
Source: If I lived my life again
“All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination