Kombination Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Only a smile
can make the tears dissapear — Mario

People tend to help others just so that they can feel are better than they really are. — Paulo Coelho

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head — William Cowper

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British. — Woody Allen

In response to a plea in early 1941 from his colleague and friend, the writer Marietta Shaginyan, who was newly infatuated with the Piano Quintet and its creator, Mickhail Zoshchenko drafted for her a portrait of the Shostakovich he knew, a deeply complex individual:
"It seemed to you that he is "frail, fragile, withdrawn, an infinitely direct, pure child." That is so. But if it were only so, then great art (as with him) would never be obtained. He is exactly what you say he is, plus something else - he is hard, acid, extremely intelligent, strong perhaps, despotic and not altogether good-natured (although cerebrally good-natured).
That is the combination in which he must be seen. And then it may be possible to understand his art to some degree.
In him, there are great contradictions. In him, one quality obliterates the other. It is conflict in the highest degree. It is almost a catastrophe."
Quoted in Laurel Fay: Shostakovich, a Life. — Dmitri Shostakovich

The cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished. — Ron Kaufman

It is difficult to grow old gracefully. — Madame De Stael