Wistfulness Def Quotes & Sayings

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in. — Steve Reich

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation. — Alain De Benoist

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. — Frank Lloyd Wright

When you wear a tattered cloth to a banquet of the honorable, you look weird — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little. — Michael Jackson

Be a loving soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate. — China Mieville

Like all good teachers, he loves the moment of revelation, when the light of knowledge passes to his pupil. — Rae Carson