Concrescent Tooth Quotes & Sayings

Books and people are hard to compare. — Andrew Clements

Action without study is fatal ... — Mary Beard

It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing. — Paolo Giordano

When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it. — Caragh M. O'Brien

We certainly employ a lot of immigrants at Fox ... and we do not take any consistent anti-immigrant line. — Rupert Murdoch

There are two natures in the believer, and so two ways of seeking holiness, as we allow the principles of the one or the other nature to guide us. The one is the carnal way, in which we put forth our utmost efforts and resolutions, trusting Christ to help us in doing so. The other is the spiritual way, in which, as those who have did and can do nothing, our one care is to receive Christ day by day and at every step to let Him live and work in us. — Andrew Murray

Any freedom that can be given can be taken away. — Christopher Moore

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can sing together, you can live together. — Zubin Mehta

One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world. — Elbert Hubbard

Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that what cannot be measured does not truly exist, and some psychologists used to believe that consciousness does not exist because it cannot be observed by instruments, so ideologists find anything that escapes their conceptual framework threatening - because ideologists want a simple principle, or a few simple principles, by which all things may be judged. When I was a student, I lived with a hard-line dialectical materialist who said that Schubert was a typical petit bourgeois pessimist, whose music would die out once objective causes for pessimism ceased to exist. But I suspect that even he was not entirely happy with this formulation. — Theodore Dalrymple

Excellence is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle.