Sorine Quotes & Sayings

Music was literally in the air at the time, the Vienna of 1780. Everybody played music, classical music. There were in fact so many musicians that in apartment buildings people had to come up with a schedule - you practice at 5 p.m., I'll practice at 6 p.m. That way the music didn't collide with one another. — Eric Weiner

It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot. — Bob Dylan

A stale mind is the devil's breadbox. — Eloisa James

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. Within every setback or obstacle lie seeds of an equal or greater benefit or opportunity. — Brian Tracy

The true makes of history are the spiritual men whom the world knew not, the unregarded agents of the creative action of the Spirit. The supreme instance of this-the key to the Christian understanding of history-is to be found in the Incarnation- the presence of the maker of the world in the world unknown to the world ... The Incarnation is itself in a sense the divine fruit of history-of the fullness of time-and it finds its extension and completion in the historic life of the Church. — Christopher Dawson

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone. — Claire Messud

Certainty shuts down possibilities and keeps us small. — L.R.W. Lee

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity. — Andrew Shue

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess? — Ted Hughes

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion. — John Smith

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. — Don Marquis

Farre shooting never kild bird. — George Herbert

Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely. — Taylor Momsen

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. — G.K. Chesterton