Energies

Famous quotes containing the word energies:

    Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites—opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity—where energies flow smoothly in one direction—there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    ... no one who has not been an integral part of a slaveholding community, can have any idea of its abominations.... even were slavery no curse to its victims, the exercise of arbitrary power works such fearful ruin upon the hearts of slaveholders, that I should feel impelled to labor and pray for its overthrow with my last energies and latest breath.
    Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)