#spirits

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#angelic #created #elves #graceful #human strength

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears. ↗

— Paul Harris

#aid #bad #being #came #course

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. ↗

— Jules Verne

#am #believe #cat #cats #cloud

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#game #nature #petty #quality #spirits

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#anxiety #been #calamity #course #depressed

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ↗

— Hannah More

#anger #cost #economy #expense #hatred

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#always #encountered #mediocre #minds #opposition

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

— Matthew Simpson

#connections #fire #flames #higher #man

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