Partita In D Quotes & Sayings

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. — Tony Abbott

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. — Andrew Murray

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it. — Jonathan Swift

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me. — Caroline Shaw

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. — Susan Orlean

'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another. — Caroline Shaw

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult. — L. Ron Hubbard

He was doing nothing less now, he thought, than prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls. So many of those souls were lost and wretched, Billy believed, because they could not see as well as his little green friends on Tralfamadore. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Wherever something is wrong, something is too big. If the stars in the sky or the atoms of uranium disintegrate in spontaneous explosion, it is not because their substance has lost its balance. It is because matter has attempted to expand beyond the impassable barriers set to every accumulation. Their mass has become too big. If the human body becomes diseased, it is, as in cancer, because a cell, or a group of cells, has begun to outgrow its allotted narrow limits. And if the body of a people becomes diseased with the fever of aggression, brutzdity, collectivism, or massive idiocy, it is not because it has fallen victim to bad leadership or mental derangement. It is because huma beings, so charming as individuals or in small aggregations, have been welded into overconcentrated social units such as mobs, unions, cartels, or great powers. — Leopold Kohr

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor. — Lyndon B. Johnson

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer. — Steve Wozniak

Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters ... — C.S. Lewis

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. — Patrick Suskind

Above the rush-hour din it was her ideal self she heard, the pianist she could never become, performing faultlessly Bach's second partita. — Ian McEwan

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good. — Dennis Prager

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. — Elizabeth Janeway