Chorales Were Originally Quotes & Sayings

Love makes cowards of us all. — Cornelia Funke

Justice is subject to dispute; might is easily recognized and is not disputed. So we cannot give might to justice. — Blaise Pascal

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not. — Richard Parks Bland

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded. — Charles Caleb Colton

I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it. — Alex George

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

very dull object. — Christian Rudder

What she wants is a partner, two people building a normal, mostly boring life. My father can be counted on for the big things - a diamond, a house, a car, maybe flowers on Valentine's Day. But my mother cares more for the details, the day-to-day considerations that will elude my father, not because he doesn't care, but because he — Amy Monticello

The man at the top of the intellectual pyramid contributes the most to all those below him, but gets nothing except his material payment, receiving no intellectual bonus from others to add to the value of his time. The man at the bottom who, left to himself, would starve in his hopeless ineptitude, contributes nothing to those above him, but receives the bonus of all of their brains. Such is the nature of the 'competition' between the strong and the weak of the intellect. Such is the pattern of 'exploitation' for which you have damned the strong. — Ayn Rand

Why bother to put the boy who broke into a house in jail when the man who stole billions from the health system is named ambassador to the country to which he had been sending the money for years? — Donna Leon

But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game? — Barack Obama

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall. — Ahdaf Soueif

No doubt, I had some kind of carefully designed pattern for living before my son came. Some strategy for defining myself. Whatever that pattern was, it is long gone. Levered out of the way by a tool so powerful no force on earth can resist it. — Mark Greene

Just because something's been good in the past doesn't mean it will continue to be good. — David Chang