Transitively Dependent Quotes & Sayings

Fact is that I played piano and performed, as a young kid, a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . Don't forget I was only eleven-years-old and to be on the stage at that age had tremendous impact on me. Basically love for classical music and performing as a kid on the big stage probably led toward this decision, which meant that music is going to be my big love but also my profession. — Herbie Hancock

Then I remember what Mom said about eating bitter melon. If I keep eating this, will I get used to it? Will I learn to like it? Somehow I don't think so. — Cara Chow

Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? — Lloyd Alexander

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. — Oscar Wilde

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm. — John Lasseter

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person. — Pema Chodron

Tough love is nothing but an excuse and another form of abuse ... from the hands that can. — Timothy Pina

You call a tree a tree, he said, and you think nothing more of the word. But it was not a 'tree' until someone gave it that name. You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.
We have come from God (continued Tolkien), and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Out myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of evil. — J.R.R. Tolkien

You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's a fairy tale. It's what people say about other people, to avoid the wretchedness. It's just cruelty by other means. Requiring a person to stay alive. For you. — Adam Haslett

Shy Cage never dreamed a dream. Still, he knew, without a doubt since he was holding one in his arms, dreams were real. — Kristen Ashley

It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the coalescing of the planets around the sun. If you wish to call that God, go ahead. — Orson Scott Card

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness ... is presence of mind within a storm of emotions. — Phillip Moffitt

I'd rather go naked than wear fur. — Christy Turlington

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite. — Helen Mirren

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries. — Jean Ingelow