Lavenir Fietsen Quotes & Sayings

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as each branch has upon the other two; the power I mean of electing at stated periods, one branch, which branch has the power of electing another. It becomes necessary to every subject then, to be in some degree a statesman: and to examine and judge for himself of the tendencies of political principles and measures. — John Adams

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. — D.H. Lawrence

I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write. — Edna Ferber

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order. — Frans De Waal