Parleying Def Quotes & Sayings

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. — Eduard Hanslick

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses. — Gertrude B. Elion

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Little crimes like mine didn't matter anymore. Little deaths like yours didn't make a sound. — Philip Beard

The right to express out thoughts, however, means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own; freedom from external authority is a lasting gain only if the inner psychological conditions are such that we are able to establish our own individuality. — Erich Fromm

So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I'm a terrible technician, and I have a very hard time painting. — Jamie Wyeth

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — Aristotle.

Give it your all. Give it away. Your desires are being held in the hand of the cosmos with incredibly sturdy care. Life is not testing you. She is rooting for you. — Danielle LaPorte

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength. — David James Duncan

Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of
literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be
her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as
lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold,
literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking about
duchesses. — Virginia Woolf

A church characterized by a small experience of forgiveness will be characterized by a small expression of love. — Peter Hubbard

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out. — Shelby Lynne

In their religion they are so uneven,
That each man goes his own byway to heaven. — Daniel Defoe

The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe