#spirits

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. ↗

— Andrew Greeley

#around #been #campfire #down #evil

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#dawn #day #enlighten #evil #generally

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#both #canada #domestic #half #immediately

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#been #beer #before #consumption #country

When you fly to New York, sometimes they put you on hold and you just go round and around in a holding pattern. Sometimes in a concert, I feel other spirits in a holding pattern that they want to land through my heart and through my fingers. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#concert #feel #fingers #fly #go

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. ↗

— George Santayana

#appreciate #bliss #domestic #patience #prefer

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#connections #fire #flames #higher #man

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#ancient #ancient times #angels #being #body

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#brain #groove #happy #hit #ideas

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#credit #dressed #good #man #may