Quotes tagged ‘Devotion’

“Marcus Aurelius: Are you ready to do your duty for Rome? Commodus: Yes, father. Marcus Aurelius: You will not be emperor. Commodus: Which wiser, older man is to take my place? Marcus Aurelius: My powers will pass to Maximus, to hold in trust until the Senate is ready to rule once more. Rome is to be…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Marcus Aurelius, Richard Harris, imdb.com

“I’ll always wait for you. I’ve been waiting on you my whole life. Even when we together, there’s still a part of me is waiting on you.”

— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Ezekiel Figuero, Justice Smith, imdb.com

“What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion for something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized but only dreamed, the highest reality?”

— David Gerrold, Gene Roddenberry, David Gerrold, James T. Kirk, William Shatner, imdb.com

“I have done nothing in the world but by the order of God.”

— Joan of Arc, indiana.edu

“There is not much difference between madness and devotion.”

— Eugenie Ross-Leming, Brad Buckner, Ghost Girl, imdb.com

“All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.”

— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info

“Know that we have met before and that we will meet again. I will find my way to you in the next life, and every life after that.”

— Mia Hollow, instagram.com

“Only you, you’re the only thing I’ll see forever In my eyes, in my words and in everything I do Nothing else but you Ever”

— Leonard Bernstein, open.spotify.com

“Always you, every thought I’ll ever know Everywhere I go, you’ll be”

— Leonard Bernstein, open.spotify.com

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com

“Do you realise how devoted I am to you, all the same? There's nothing I wouldn't do for you, dearest Honey.”

— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com

“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”

— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com

“I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.”

— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com

“Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain it as an actual relationship. Physical attraction is a feeling you don’t really have control over, but devotion is something that has to be chosen. So, ideally… I suppose it’s passion combined with t…”

— Angela N. Blount, amazon.com

“In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.”

— Alain de Botton, amazon.com

“'I'll tell you,' said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, 'what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!'”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“'I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer,' said Mrs. Maylie; 'I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.'”

— Charles Dickens, amazon.com

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

— Miranda July, amazon.com

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost…”

— Captain Wentworth, amazon.com