Concertgebouworkest Quotes & Sayings

My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness. — Anton Chekhov

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle. — Pietro Mascagni

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. — Paul Beatty

It was so popular, so more people identify me from 'Friends' than anything else. — Eddie Cahill

One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer. — L'Wren Scott

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism. — Pope John Paul II

Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him. — Margaret Mitchell

You are all right. But you are all wrong too. For each of you touched only one part of the animal. — Karen Backstein

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is? — Daniel Prokop

There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living. — Henri Barbusse

I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that. — Virginia Woolf

I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence. — Judith Butler

Shared victory is a double victory, shared defeat is half-defeat. — John Kessel