#reverence

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#builds #due #each #factory #man

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#american #brother #common #creatures #earth

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#due #products #reverence #sacraments #seriousness

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. ↗

— Richard Powers

#condition #control #cultivating #face #forever

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#beer #cheaper #connected #except #food

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. ↗

— David Seabury

#choose #destiny #follow #gives #handiwork

(On the death of Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll) Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine. ↗

— Mark Twain

#eulogy #friend #funeral #grief #love

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. ↗

— Pythagoras

#all things #cloud #light #reverence #shadow