Stravinskys Firebird Quotes & Sayings

Two things specially avail unto improvement in holiness, namely firmness to withdraw ourselves from the sin to which by nature we are most inclined, and earnest zeal for that good in which we are most lacking. — Thomas A Kempis

Eyes of blue and hair of fire
Are the keys to your desire.
Angel's voice and will of steel
Shall force the dark witch to kneel.
Death to bind and bind to break
Sun and moon for all our sake.
Prince of night, daughter of day,
Bound as one the witch they'll slay.
Same hour they their first breath drew,
On her last, the witch will rue.
Join the two named in this verse
And see the end of the curse. — Danielle L. Jensen

MACHEVILL: I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space. — Debasish Mridha

In place of a true-type people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman ... — Oswald Spengler

I'm so happy, I feel like I'm jumping on a trampoline, just boinging around inside myself. — Jandy Nelson

I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realise that I have access to about 0.1 percent of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about. I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realise he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him. — Bill Burr

Long, long journey through the darkness
Long, long way to go
But what are miles across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home? — Enya

It's intrusive for grandparents to think they're in charge. It's manipulative. Also, it's self-destructive, since if the parents have to resist you, you won't get your mitts on the kid as often. — Anne Lamott

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness. — Glenn Beck

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. — Laura Esquivel

Whatever enjoyment I might have had at the time would disappear overnight like snow melting on a warm roof. — S.J. Watson

It's his mother's birthday? But he didn't tell me. I don't have a card. I don't have a gift. How could he do this to me?
Men are crap. — Sophie Kinsella

Leaders who ignore change risk extinction. — Pat Williams