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"The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf."
"I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny."
"The right quote can inspire people to change their ways."
"Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome."
"We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities."
"I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization."
"The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given any thought to the manner in which we should express them. And suddenly there is within us a strange and obscene animal making itself heard, whose tones may inspire as much alarm in the person who receives the involuntary, elliptical and almost irresistible communication of one's defect or vice as would the sudden avowal indirectly and outlandishly proffered by a criminal who can no longer refrain from confessing to a murder of which one had never imagined him to be guilty."
"Parenting is an impossible job at any age."
"I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen."
"Whatever inspires you fires you."
"Just wanted to inspire my teammates. Obviously, I didn't do enough."
"Vision and the ability to mobilize and inspire people at the grassroots. That's what the most important criteria is going to be for any DNC chair."
"I like movies where you feel like you're going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you're gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me."
"Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not."
"Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free."
"We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods."
"Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that."
"I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless."
"Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor."
"All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?"
