Horchow Collection Quotes & Sayings

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. — Herbert Hoover

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together. — Lukas Foss

It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land. — Alice Walker

Ethan, this is my favorite moment, before all of my other favorite moments are created with a new client. You are my work of art, mine to possess, sculpt, mend, bend, and make beg for mercy. You will adore worshiping, pleasing and serving me." ~ Mistress — Ruby Madden

He studied me, searching my expression, not quite seeing what had happened but aware that something had changed. — Alice Hoffman

They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope. — Shaun David Hutchinson

When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body
it will all get conquered like this. — Ajahn Chah

If one purges all subsequent additions from the original teachings of the Prophets and Christianity, especially those of the priests, one is left with a doctrine that is capable of curing all the social ills of humankind. Statement — Albert Einstein

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. — Gillian Flynn

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do. — Albert Bandura

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao-Tzu

Our Sun is not Earth's true "mother." Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth to Earth, this is only partially correct. Although Earth was originally created from the Sun (as part of the ecliptic plane of debris and dust that circulated around the Sun 4.5 billion years ago), our Sun is barely hot enough to fuse hydrogen to helium.
This means that our true "mother" sun was actually an unnamed star or collection of stars that died billions of years ago in a supernova, which then seeded nearby nebulae with the higher elements beyond iron that make up our body. Literally, our bodies are made of stardust, from stars that died billions of years ago. — Michio Kaku

I go through life now reminding myself to remember something, and I do this while that something is happening. I'll be experiencing a moment and I'll say to myself, "Remember this!" Otherwise my whole life just blurs by. — Heidi Julavits