Internal Quotes

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society.

I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I’ve never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.

I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper.

Why, I say, do so few understand and apprehend the internal power?… He who in himself sees all things, is all things.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

When you’re a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that’s really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.