Sergei Rachmaninov Quotes & Sayings

As if the daytime wasn't bad enough, I dream about him. Every night for three nights in a row. I can't get out of that moment when I was in his head, feeling what he felt, hearing his thoughts as he kissed me. I can feel him loving me. And it kills me, that moment when I feel his love shift into fear — Cynthia Hand

The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt. — Sergei Rachmaninoff

They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them
this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man. — Naomi Novik

You do have to change things as warfare changes. — Chuck Schumer

In His own heart, there were frequently great struggles. And those struggles drove Him to prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Character: our habitual way of operating. HOW we are is WHO we are! — Dave Anderson

The bold are helpless without cleverness. — Euripides

Justice without mercy is tyranny — E'Jei Osborne

Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth. — Sheldon B. Kopp

I would like to have a 'Lost' clapper board with the numbers and the clock at the top. — Henry Ian Cusick

Maybe I should just lie quietly inside you while our old selves slip in and out of the back rooms of the soul. — Richard Jackson

Beauty didn't mean anything in the forest. — Sarah J. Maas

Change isn't closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new. — Todd Stocker

You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park. — Shawn Wayans

One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever. — Patrick Dempsey

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains. - Beautiful!
I linger yet with Nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn'd the language of another world. — George Gordon Byron