Brentano Quartet Quotes & Sayings

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today! — Barrie Kerper

I like the idea of love standing the test of time and circumstances. — Brooke Elliott

I hate you and your freaky alien powers. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I don't care whether you're a guy or a girl. I'll always like you. — Hisaya Nakajo

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others. — Paul Haggis

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words. — Halsey

In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that is, it must happen to us - it cannot be induced); it must, perforce, be transient, fleet, swift; it must be noetic (that is, it must inspire a sense of new or profound knowing); and it must be ineffable, beyond the reach of words. — Lisa R. Spaar

Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst! — Kabir

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl. — Priyanka Chopra

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them. — Samuel L. Jackson

On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes of working poor families have grown six times as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans. These substantial partisan differences persist even after allowing for differences in economic circumstances and historical trends beyond the control of individual presidents. They suggest that escalating inequality is not simply an inevitable economic trend - and that a great deal of economic inequality in the contemporary United States is specifically attributable to the policies and priorities of Republican presidents. — Larry M. Bartels

Often the pronouns I, me, and you are not just harmless but downright helpful. They simulate a conversation, as classic style recommends, and they are gifts to the memory-challenged reader. — Steven Pinker

The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others. — Sharon Salzberg

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Why don't you just kill me?"
"That, my dear, would be a waste." He steps forward and I realize his hands are sheathed in white leather gloves. He tips my chin up with one finger. "Besides, it'd be a shame to lose such a pretty face. — Tahereh Mafi