Rencontres Quotes & Sayings

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. — Dante Alighieri

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour — Hugh Massingberd

I don't want to sound pompous, but I think it is important that when one makes arguments of consequence that he go and see what those consequences are. Having championed the war, I wanted to see the products of my own argument. — Lawrence Kaplan

I hate to see the evening sun go down. — William Christopher Handy

What would have become of the people five hundred years ago if they had followed strictly the advice of the doctors? They would have all been dead. What would the people have been, if at any age of the world they had followed implicitly the direction of the church? They would have all been idiots. It is a splendid thing that there is always some grand man who will not mind, and who will think for himself. I believe in allowing the children to think for themselves.
I believe in the democracy of the family. If in this world there is anything splendid, it is a home where all are equals. — Robert G. Ingersoll

Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known. — Oliver Sacks