Pleshakov Music Center Quotes & Sayings

To keep yourself from becoming an instrument of death, you kill? — Gavriel Savit

We climbed slowly toward the greatest of our terrors of that time, we went to expose ourselves to fear and interrogate it. — Elena Ferrante

The Darkling smiled, but this time the turn of his lips was cold. He shoved off the table and stalked toward me.

"I will enter the Fold, Alina, and I will show West Ravka what I can do, even without the Sun Summoner. And when I have crushed Lantsov's only ally, I will hunt you like an animal. You will find no sanctuary. You will have no peace." He loomed over me, his gray eyes glinting. "Fly back home to your otkazat'sya," he snarled. "Hold him tight. The rules of this game are about to change. — Leigh Bardugo

You can call me your friend if you like, but I think of you when I stroke myself. When last I checked, that points to feelings that are decidedly more than friendly. — Courtney Milan

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give. — Thomas Jefferson

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation. — Herman Kahn

(I)f you did not read when you were young, you might never catch the disease and then what would be the use of living? — James A. Michener

The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to man's body and mind. It will be an agency for building and healing his soul as well. — Corinne Heline

I told him he wasn't my friend. Before he could protest I said that real friends don't wake up other friends in the middle of the night for money for drugs. (Even as I said it I thought of at least half a dozen occasions when that has happened to me, but that wasn't the point.) — Peter Moore

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The hope of reward is the solace of labor. — Publilius Syrus

I also know that we should cultivate our gardens. — Voltaire

A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul. — Ambrose Bierce

Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year. — Chris Hedges