Batthi Nyi Quotes & Sayings

It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today. — Terry Crowley

Oh, the different consciousness between the grieving and the dying! One sees midnight, the other joyful sunrise. One sees death, the other Life as never before. — Richard Bach

He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public. — Thomas Bernhard

Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset ... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas. — Mary Fulbrook

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful. — Jean Sibelius

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks. — Denis Leary

Everything you promised, and everything I need. What I'm willing to give to you is what I want from you. Can't you do that for me, Tristan? Isn't there enough of you left? — R.K. Lilley

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you. — Barack Obama

Because whenever a woman kills her child, every other mother - at least, every one who's honest with herself - has a flash of sympathy. Not empathy. They don't want to have done it, cannot imagine doing it. But they know. — Laura Lippman

It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate. — Blackbeard

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey

That man who had prayed for the fasces, when he attains them, desires to lay them aside and says over and over: "When will this year be over! — Seneca.