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  • Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise -- Edward Young
  • Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. -- Edward Young
  • Revere the body and care for it, for it is a temple. -- Swami Muktananda
  • Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. -- Bill Maher
  • Of all things, none does not revere the Way and honor virtue. Reverence of the Way and honoring virtue were not demanded of them, but it is in their nature. -- Laozi
  • I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith. -- James Lovelock
  • You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere. ... [I]n a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history. -- Sarah Palin
  • Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness. -- Max Beerbohm
  • To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film. -- Mae West
  • I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal. -- Nat Hentoff
  • Know not to revere human things too much. -- Aeschylus
  • It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. -- Voltaire
  • In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
  • Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence. -- Deborah Cox
  • I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. -- Alice Sebold
  • People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak. -- Matthew Bourne
  • My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them. -- Ken Livingstone
  • Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. -- James A. Michener
  • Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women. -- Francesca Annis
  • For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. -- Joel Kinnaman
  • Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. -- Amiri Baraka
  • With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn't just about being noticed, you know? -- Mos Def
  • A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. -- Rebecca West
  • The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' -- Laozi
  • Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy. -- Bharati Mukherjee
  • To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve. -- William Ernest Henley
  • The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness. -- Annie Lennox
  • I absolutely want and prize and love and revere every single media review I get, but if I got 50 reviews from major newspapers and one review from Amazon, I still would feel a little weird: 'What's going on? Why aren't people responding?' -- Caroline Leavitt
  • A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded. -- James Dobson
  • I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... My plan is to never go there. I'm too vain to get plastic surgery because I don't like how it looks, and I want to look my best. -- Evangeline Lilly
  • Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • I think there are different kinds of comedians, and I prefer the clowns who are going: 'I'm an idiot, aren't we all a bit like this, laugh at me.' Whereas, a lot of other comedians are saying: 'Aren't I clever? You want to be me, aren't I cool? Revere me.' Which is fine. But that's not my bag. -- Miranda Hart
  • Sometimes, if you have a lot of history with a character and a lot of affection, it's hard for you to do anything with that character. Like with Swamp Thing, for instance, I revere the Alan Moore run so much that it would be hard for me to do my own Swamp Thing. I care too much about the way it was done before. -- Jeff Lemire
  • Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty. -- John Adams
  • Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders. -- Thomas Haden Church
  • You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration. -- Gregory Beale
  • Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine. -- David R. Brower
  • Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear. -- Jean Racine
  • Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it. -- Agnes Repplier
  • respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life. -- Rajneesh
  • respect life,revere life.there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life. -- Rajneesh
  • The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere. -- Roger Wolcott Sperry
  • It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it. -- George Lois
  • I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about. -- Brad Listi
  • Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing. -- Anne Desclos
  • It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar. -- Silius Italicus
  • The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining enlightenment. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. -- Hermann Hesse
  • We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. -- Harold S. Kushner
  • I feel nervous because I revere [Zadie Smith] so much. I don't want to be stupid. If I say something stupid, just interrupt me. -- George Saunders
  • Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God. -- Ravi Zacharias
  • True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. -- William Wordsworth
  • Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry. -- Pat Conroy
  • Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage. -- Donald Trump
  • Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children. -- Carl Sagan
  • To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
  • If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage. -- Nicolle Wallace
  • We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own -- Barack Obama
  • Karate is not A religion, cult or dogma. It is incumbent on every generation of martial artists, to find the weaknesses of the previous generations, not to revere it . . . -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
  • Do people/circumstances take up space in your head...without paying rent? What we spend the majority of our thoughts on/in is what we revere and fear! (EL) -- Evinda Lepins
  • If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas. -- Mark McCormack
  • If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony. -- Laozi
  • Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is. -- Amiri Baraka
  • Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the riches of the earth are inadequate without its approval. -- Blaise Pascal
  • The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' -- Laozi
  • The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns. -- Erma Bombeck
  • I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word. -- Tertullian
  • Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. -- Masashi Kishimoto
  • By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence. -- Eric Alterman
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