Menuhin Karen Quotes & Sayings

The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness - a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs. — Matthew Arnold

We'd had a message from Just, the first to reach us in many a month. He and Hearth had left home almost three years ago. With youth's fine disregard for the concerns of their elders, they'd sent messages only sporadically. — Robin Hobb

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great. — Baldassare Castiglione

Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Forcing a subject to respond the way you want him to only confirms your bias, my dear. — Erin McCahan

Jack Sturtzer, one of my cousins, had gone to art school and suggested that I might be interested in a private school called the Art Institute of Buffalo, and in fact that is what happened. So upon graduation in 1948, I then went to stay with my cousins on Seventeenth Street and enrolled in the program at the Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue. — Paul Smith

Under the circumstances, washing without soap wasn't even as good as kissing your sister. — Tom Clancy

We are as gods and might as well get good at it. — Stewart Brand

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are. — Shana Chartier

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off. — Blaise Pascal

And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful. — Susan Meissner

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind. — Nafisa Joseph

Few societies have been stable enough and resilient enough to renew themselves in recognizable forms over long stretches of time. History is littered with civilizations that have been utterly destroyed. Everywhere, the self-assured confidence of priests, scribes and intellectuals has been mocked by unexpected events, leaving all their prayers, records and treatises wholly forgotten unless they are retrieved from oblivion by future archaeologists and historians. — John N. Gray

There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women. — Harriet Quimby