Upspringing Ballet Quotes & Sayings

We don't do ambivalence well in America. We do courage of our convictions. We do might makes right. Ambivalence is French. Certainty is American. — Anna Quindlen

Dante ... " I swallowed back the fear in my throat. "What's going on?" "War," he whispered. "America's at war!" I screamed. "Oh my gosh, do we even have a bomb shelter?" I started running around in circles, I needed to grab a book or something, or my notes. Crap! I needed my letters! "Val!" Dante yelled. "I — Rachel Van Dyken

Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic experience itself degenerates into a kind of fetish or idol if it is held up as an end in itself, untested by the rest of life. — Roger Kimball

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced. — William Whewell

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not the size of the ring, but the size of the love. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now. — Joe Torre

I wanted more of her, & no matter what happened between us, I already knew I'd never forget anything about her. As crazy as it sounded, she was becoming part of me, & I was already dreading the fact that we wouldn't be able to spend the day together tomorrow. Or the day after, or the day after that. Maybe, I told myself, we could beat the odds — Nicholas Sparks