Sinfonico Sonora Quotes & Sayings

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ... — Flannery O'Connor

always keep your mind joyful; if melancholy thoughts come, kick them out. — Swami Vivekananda

If life is a dream, I never want to awaken. — W.K. Pomeroy

Courage is a kind of salvation. Courage is knowing what not to fear. — Plato

As the conversation continued it was clear that these were divided people. As artists as well as queers, these people wanted to be able to think in radical ways, to have insights, to realize, to make work that was outside of social assumptions, to be radical people who could-like the weary ACT UPers-achieve justice in some fashion. They admired their predecessors who had created change through confrontation, alienation, and truth telling. But their professional instincts led them in different directions: accommodation, social positioning, even unconscious maneuvering of the queer content they did have so that it was depoliticized, personalized, and not about power. — Sarah Schulman

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles. — Ahmet Ertegun

He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea. — Catherynne M Valente

I guess I'm still single because I didn't forward that Dalai Lama chain message some years back — Subhasis Das

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Europe, he says, is frightened that an influx of foreigners will erode European values. But what values will there to be uphold if we abandon our duty to protect those less fortunate than ourselves? Wat incentive do we give to refugees to maintain the fabric of our society if that fabric is so ragged in the first place? "If Europe is not able to show a better way of life to them, then they will think that their morality is better than ours."

"They need to face some higher standards of morality, " he says. "If not, they will set their own."

[Quoting Serbian priest Tibor Varga] — Patrick Kingsley

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him. — Karlheinz Stockhausen

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. — Pearl S. Buck

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it. — Joan Walsh Anglund