Inward Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (I) Quotes

Keith and I have a very complicated relationship. I don`t pretend to understand it. I find it quite tricky. He is a very inward person and he was always a very quiet and meditative type of person, so to bring out what he really wants to say is, I think, quite a problem for him sometimes. I`m a very outgoing person and very gregarious. Keith isn`t, really, although he`s learned to be somewhat more gregarious than he used to be.

- Mick Jagger

On her character in _Mistress of Spices (2005)_: "I have related to each character I have performed thus far, including Tilo. I am very sensitive to moods and one`s inward feelings and emotions. I am a true people person and people watcher. I look forward to meeting interesting people and understanding their experiences in life." (4-26-06)

- Aishwarya Rai

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier

(first address in the House of Lords, 1971) I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier

I don`t want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

- Billie Joe Armstrong

I think people are turning inward more now cause the world`s got in such a weird, crazy state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they are doing. And how do we interact with a world that`s going crazy? It`s a very important time.

- Dave Davies

(An MCL injury results from,) Usually getting hit from the outside of the knee, ... It`s an inward pressure that overstretches the ligament.

- Matt Miller

Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.

- Ricardo Montalban

There are unlimited possibilities. We create everything in our lives, the good and the bad. There is never anyone to blame or point fingers. Only we are responsible for our actions and feelings.There is no such thing as bad occurrences...they just are. It`s merely a result of a choice you have made. How you choose to handle it, is the result of the outcome. It`s about going inward and discovering your truth of who you really are. Whatever you project outward is what you bring in for yourself.

- Nicole Bilderback

As we grow old'Šthe beauty steals inward.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.

- Robert Nelson

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

- Marcus Aurelius

(The Haunting of Winchester reaches beyond the pure ghost story. Appropriate to a woman who lived in her artwork and never received a single guest (even Teddy Roosevelt was denied), the story explores a woman`s inward journey and her dealings with issues like personal responsibility.) As she becomes more aware of the rifle`s legacy, ... she becomes more self-aware, and so she begins to transform, to renovate herself really, not just her house.

- Michael Butler

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

- Lawrence Durrell

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

- Francis Schaeffer

The longest journey is the journey inward.

- Aaron Scott

He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

- Al Harrison

When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.

- Alexa Gromko

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man`s external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.

- Alfred the Great

I know this, and the knowledge eats me like an inward animal: there is nothing worse for a woman than to be deprived of her womanliness.

- Ali Hosseinitash

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

- Allan Keller

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

- Allen Rossum

There never was a war that was not inward.

- Alyssa Fressle

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

- Alyssa Fressle

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

- Amanda Hillier

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

- Andre Gold

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one`s inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.

- Andre Grjebine

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

- Andrew Lo

(An MCL injury results from,) Usually getting hit from the outside of the knee, ... It`s an inward pressure that overstretches the ligament.

- Arline Isaacson

I do a lot of inward thoughts and meditation, ... I listen to a lot of music. I`m not an extremely religious person. I am an extremely spiritual person. It`s more of a feeling than something I can talk about.

- Armin Mekelburg

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

- Aristotle

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk

- Charles H. Spurgeon

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

- Laurence Olivier, Sir

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

- Stephen S. Wise

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul

- William Hazlitt