Sinfonietta Youtube Quotes & Sayings

Let us say, as a thought experiment, that someone in a country equipped with doomsday weapons fears attack from another country and strikes preemptively. There would be thousands of years of cultural history and some few decades of personal history behind the decision. Madman though he might be, he would have brought the species to a culmination that humankind had been preparing for eons. To say that a spasm of activity in a region of his brain was crucial to the event would be utterly trivial. — Marilynne Robinson

You doona hate me for not being able to return you?" He paused for emphasis. "Ever, Gwen. I can't return you ever. — Karen Marie Moning

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. — William Shakespeare

During the course of my research, I had had occasion to examine not only simple compounds, salts and oxides, but also a great number of minerals. — Marie Curie

It's very important, no matter what you may do professionally, to keep alive some of the healthy interests of your youth. Children's play is not just kids' stuff. Children's play is rather the stuff of most future inventions. — Fred Rogers

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense. — Henry David Thoreau

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation. — Rabindranath Tagore

You said he was a perfectly adequate lover."

"Perfectly adequate? I dont suppose I ever said that about you?" She only had to look and Logan and those rough hands to know he'd be a thoroughly, mind-blowingly, head-bangingly, DIRTY lover."

"I bloody hope not. — Amy Andrews

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally. — Sufjan Stevens

When you realize you're alive, you can live life! — Chad Michael Murray

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction
perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided. — H.L. Mencken

When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing. — Eric Ripert

No love is lost; unless we try, to make it last forever. — Seekerohan