Partitas Bach Quotes & Sayings

The flip side of humiliation is pride. — Gary Weiss

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you. — Jerome K. Jerome

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now. — Jules Verne

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

People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes. — Donald T. Phillips

It is not truth that matters, but victory. — Adolf Hitler

Just because the man looks like Henry Cavill — Kristen Proby

You really dug your own grave," he mutters. "And I'm going to bury you in it."
"Say that louder," I tell him, under my breath. "I dare you. — Holly Black

One night, Ye was working the night shift. This was the loneliest time. In the deep silence of midnight, the universe revealed itself to its listeners as a vast desolation. What Ye disliked most was seeing the waves that slowly crawled across the display, a visual record of the meaningless noise Red Coast picked up from space. Ye felt this interminable wave was an abstract view of the universe: one end connected to the endless past, the other to the endless future, and in the middle only the ups and downs of random chance - without life, without pattern, the peaks and valleys at different heights like uneven grains of sand, the whole curve like a one-dimensional desert made of all the grains of sand lined up in a row, lonely, desolate, so long that it was intolerable. You could follow it and go forward or backward as long as you liked, but you'd never find the end. — Liu Cixin

I think if you look at exactly where you are, you can't really focus without looking back and forward at the same time. — Bill Laswell

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough. — Jillian Michaels

Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. — Cesare Beccaria

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else. — Zainab Salbi

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms. — Caroline Shaw