There is something in the Olympics, indefinable, springing from the soul, that must be preserved.
~By Chris Brasher ~
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
~By Elihu Root ~
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
~By Harry Caray ~
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~By Thomas Campion ~
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
After the last two years of springtime gas price spikes, nearly everyone in Southeast Wisconsin understands that something is wrong with our gasoline regulation and supply system.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
~By Philip Dunne ~
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
~By Wilhelm Reich ~
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
~By Bobby Bonilla ~
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~By G. M. Trevelyan ~
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.
~By Chris Cannon ~
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.
~By Charles Cotton ~
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
~By Ambrose Philips ~
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
~By Cornelia Otis Skinner ~
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
~By Thomas A. Edison ~
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.
~By Anna C. Brackett ~
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
~By Peter De Vries ~
The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.
~By Jim Evans ~
I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people. I'm really excited about our new season. We are making great new episodes that I can't wait for our fans to see and I'm looking forward to the "Hannah Montana" movie that will be out in the spring.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
~By Bill Veeck ~
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
~By Karl Marx ~
Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.
~By Tommy Bond ~
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
~By Andrew Jackson ~
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.
~By William C. Bryant ~
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
~By Georg Trakl ~
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
From abundance springs satiety.
~By Titus Livius ~
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.
~By William C. Bryant ~
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.
~By William Alexander ~
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
~By Doug Larson ~
We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!
~By Adrian Belew ~
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.
~By Clarence Day ~
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
~By Red Skelton ~
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
~By Denis Waitley ~
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
~By Plato ~
She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~
Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
~By Christopher Marlowe ~
That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
~By Stephen Hadley ~
In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
~By Washington Irving ~
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
~By Gordon Sinclair ~
Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
~By Lord Byron ~
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.
~By Pee Wee Reese ~
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party.
~By William Henry Ashley ~
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.
~By Ronnie Spector ~
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
~By Robertson Davies ~
All cruelty springs from weakness.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
~By Martin Farquhar Tupper ~
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
~By Robert Benchley ~
From labour health, from health contentment spring; contentment opes the source of every joy.
~By James Beattie ~
I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.
~By Kurt Huber ~
The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
~By Ted Nelson ~
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.
~By Thomas J. Sargent ~
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
~By Kim Deal ~
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~By Carl Andre ~
Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
~By Alexander Dubcek ~
Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!
~By John Hughes ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
~By John George Nicolay ~
My experience with Buffalo Springfield was that they did not rehearse.
~By Jim Messina ~
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
~By Isadora Duncan ~
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
~By Max Weinberg ~
My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
~By Du Fu ~
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
~By James Whistler ~
Springfield has always had a place in my heart.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.
~By Robert Hass ~
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
~By Al Bernstein ~
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
~By Pam Brown ~
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