Karajan Conductor Quotes & Sayings

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. — James Surowiecki

Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. — Michel De Montaigne

We cannot truly love God if we do not love our fellow travelers on this mortal journey. — Thomas S. Monson

What is?', he said. 'What if?' is a question that belongs to magic. — Kate DiCamillo

Where the strong are weak, and the noble all too mild - there it builds its disgusting nest: the parasite lives where the great have small wounded recesses. — Friedrich Nietzsche

For the tenth time, I wonder if I made a mistake escaping the castle. — Kassandra Lynn

Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal life, but my label and everybody is warning me that will be changing and I'm in for a rollercoaster ride. — James Blunt

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument. — Gerry Spence

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. — Sarah Caldwell

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap. — Greg Egan

Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look! — Frances Hardinge

Viewed from a different angle, my uncle's words offered up the rest of my life as an unexpected gift, an opportunity for the most radical improvisation. I could be whatever I wanted to be, as long as I didn't end up another corpse in the casket with a hole in his head. Anything went. Anything was permissible, as long as I lived. — Philip Connors

The deepest reason why the Church is weak and the world is dying is that there are not enough saints. No, that's not quite honest. The reason is that WE are not saints. — Peter Kreeft

You are the witness, to whom things happen but who remains a witness. Witnessing is the art of nonidentification, and nonidentification is all. Nonidentification is all there is to meditation. It is the whole meditation. — Rajneesh