Leonid Kogan Quotes & Sayings

Obedience ... allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord. — Athos M. Amorim

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. — Aulus Persius Flaccus

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

Eyes whose color I would never be able to fully describe, even if I someday learn the words. The best I can do is compare it to things I do know: the heavy thickness of red gold, the smell of brass on a hot day, desire and pride. — N.K. Jemisin

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long. — Grover Norquist

You can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction — Isabel Allende

I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life. — Vincent Piazza

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. — Benjamin Franklin

Man was born to live either in a state of distracting inquietude or of lethargic disgust. — Voltaire

Forty years ago, at the dawn of molecular biology, the French biologist Jacques Monod wrote his famous book Chance and Necessity, which argues bleakly that the origin of life on earth was a freak accident, and that we are alone in an empty universe. The final lines of his book are close to poetry, an amalgam of science and metaphysics: The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose. Since — Nick Lane

Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth — L.M. Montgomery

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere. — Ben Bradlee

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made. — David Beckham