#spirits

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

#any #contest #gives #kind #me

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

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

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet. ↗

— Joshua Nkomo

#i #join #just #spirits #trying

An intelligent woman with allies can accomplish anything ↗

— Margaret Plant

#plant #spirits #intelligence

It is time, therefore, that you should apply for aid to such helpful Spirits. But will you have the strength of mind, the courage to endure the approach of Beings so different from mankind? I know that their coming produces certain inevitable effects, as internal tremors, the revulsion of the blood from its ordinary course; but I also know that these terrors, these revulsions, painful as they undoubtedly are, must appear as nothing compared with the mortal pain of separation from an object loved greatly and exclusively. ↗

— William Beckford

#occult #revulsion #spirits #terror #courage

Like a great fool, I went ashore with them, and they gave me some cursed stuff they called gin, - such blasphemy I never heard! At first when they told me they had set up a great distillery of gin, I thought them very useful, clever, good men; for you know, captain, any nation might be converted by hollands; -but this was the unchristianest beastliest liquor I ever tasted, and it made me - as I feel now. Yet the foolish, idiot-people of the island think it very good, because it makes them mad-drunk, and they believe Heaven sent it; but it made me believe the devil had got amongst them. ↗

— Edward John Trelawny

#gin #spirits #men

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#graduate #graduate student #harvard #history #i

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#aretha #aretha franklin #child #depressed #franklin