Inspirational Sondheim Quotes & Sayings

He's carried dead men, felt the weight of their forfeited hopes. He will do what needs to be done. — Eddie Joyce

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. — John Green

It's better to recall something you wish you'd said than something you wish you hadn't. — Frank A. Clark

A child can educate just about anybody. — Garrison Keillor

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole. — Vivek Wadhwa

She gazes over at baby Genevieve, who is now asleep in Kevin's arms, and thinks, I really don't have any words of advice at all. The world is an endlessly confounding place. — Elin Hilderbrand

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. — Charles Darwin

Some habits are harder to break than others — Syrie James

... my fingers slowly threading through his hair as he explained in great detail how he planned on showing me when I got better just how much he loved me, so much detail I was sure my face was as red as a tomato, but boy did I have something to look forward to. — J. Lynn

As an adolescent, I was bitter and angry, and I definitely put up these walls. — Peter Dinklage

Everything depends upon execution; having just a vision is no solution. — Stephen Sondheim

You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people. — Agatha Christie

It would be facile, even exculpatory, to call the problem of the Islamic State 'a problem with Islam.' The religion allows many interpretations, and Islamic State supporters are morally on the hook for the one they choose. And yet simply denouncing the Islamic State as un-Islamic can be counterproductive, especially if those who hear the message have read the holy texts and seen the endorsement of many of the caliphate's practices written plainly within them. — Graeme Wood

You care about me. We're in a room together, with a hundred other people, and you know ehre I am, who I'm talking to. We enjoy each other. We're a bit alike, but different enough. You see things in me that you don't see in your wife and you know, deep down, that if we had met in another time, when it wasn't impossible for anything to happen between us, that we could have had something. And you think it might have been spetacular. And you know you might be a different person if you were with me, and that scares the hell out of you. And when youve had a few drinks, you fancy the arse off me." (...)
He gave her a little sideways smile. "Nearly right."
She raised an eyebrow. God, this felt good. (...)
"Just to be sure we're both clear on this, I'm about to kiss you, Lucy. — Elizabeth Noble