Fluchten Verb Quotes & Sayings

Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine. — Richard Rohr

Professional musicians, in general, possess what most of us would regard as remarkable powers of musical imagery. Many composers, indeed, do not compose initially or entirely at an instrument but in their minds. There is no more extraordinary example of this than Beethoven, who continued to compose (and whose compositions rose to greater and greater heights) years after he had become totally deaf. It is possible that his musical imagery was even intensified by deafness, for with the removal of normal auditory input, the auditory cortex may become hypersensitive, with heightened powers of musical imagery (and sometimes even auditory hallucinations). — Oliver Sacks

I'm suspicious of people who talk about their feelings to the whole world — Salma Hayek

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences. — John Paul Warren

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace. — Yitzhak Rabin

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her. — Hanna Martine

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both. — Stephen King

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness. — Vaclav Havel