Decrescendo In Music Quotes & Sayings

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If your job is inspiration you have to go at it at all costs. — Kanye West

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books. — C.S. Lewis

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals. — Walter Lippmann

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one. — Benjamin Franklin

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

My fans are who I am. You give meaning to my life. You will never know the connection I feel to you. — Lady Gaga

Be my sonata, my cantata, my love
sing me something sweet
but not too sweet
(or i may grow deaf to our harmony
as we decrescendo into silence) — Nenia Campbell

After years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart. — Nelson Mandela

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. — Jon Meacham

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. — William Butler Yeats

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.' — Eric Sevareid

Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady. — Louisa May Alcott

We aim to express the passion of our members in something actionable that we can all in fact do. — Joan Blades

I just love kids. I always have. — Faith Prince

In a way it wasn't so different from art. It bridged the void between minds, let us feel something together, ten tokens per minute. Sometimes I thought, Money isn't filthy or cold. It's the only way we can be human with each other anymore. — Leah Raeder