Aontas Choral Group Quotes & Sayings

We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met in order to speak out the truth. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are afraid of the instincts. We are afraid of the intuition within us. We suppress the instincts, and we cut off our intuitional awareness from one another and from the world. The reason being some great shock to the procreative self. Now we know one another only as ideal or social or political entities, fleshless, bloodless and cold like Bernard Shaw's creatures. Intuitively we are dead to one another, we have all gone cold. But by intuition alone can man really be aware of man, or of the living, substantial world. By intuition alone can man love and know either woman or world, and by intuition alone can he bring forth images of the magic awareness which we call art. — D.H. Lawrence

I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. — Walt Whitman

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity ... — Marcus Aurelius

The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct. — Haruki Murakami

Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you ... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way. — Cecilia Bartoli

The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after — Peyton J Glenn

As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers — Madeleine L'Engle

Don't be limited in your views with regard to your neighbor's virtue ... You must enlarge your soul towards each other. — Joseph Smith Jr.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. — Paul Merton

Early in the game, when it was still close, a couple of calls had gone against Carolina. Some of the students had started a profane chant. It didn't last very long, because Smith walked straight to the scorer's table, took the PA microphone, pointed in the direction of the students, and said, "Stop. Now. We don't do that here. We win with class at Carolina." They stopped. Instantly. When — John Feinstein

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply. — Joseph Campbell

Jubilation knows and Longing grants
only Lament still learns; with girlish hands
she counts the ancient evil through the nights.
But suddenly, unpracticed and askant,
she lifts one of our voice's constellations
Into the sky unclouded by her breath. — Rainer Maria Rilke

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said — Tony Benn