Blackheath Conservatoire Quotes & Sayings

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin

To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. — William Hazlitt

Both Jefferson and Madison remained convinced to the end of their lives that all parts of America's government had equal authority to interpret the fundamental law of the Constitution - all departments had what Madison called a concurrent right to expound the constitution. — Gordon S. Wood

Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way. — Marty Rubin

Any man who needs to surround himself with loyal acolytes doesn't really believe in himself," he would say. "And if he doesn't believe in himself, why should I? — Ken Follett

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White

Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card ... I've already seen this trick ... — Michael Ammar

If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today. — Randall Terry

She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies. — D.H. Lawrence

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. — Edward R. Murrow

My eyes were drawn to him as if my world was black and white and he was a rainbow. — L S May

My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time? — Ernest K. Gann

I am myself my own commander.
[Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.] — Plautus

The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought. — Alice Walker

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. — David Hume