Yakushev Pianist Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. — Gerald Vann

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives. — Paul Engle

Writing is a very calming thing for me. — Carrie Fisher

Once upon a time, one looked to society
or class, or community
for one's normative vocabulary: what was good for everyone was by definition good for anyone. But the converse does not hold. What is good for one person may or may not be of value or interest to another. Conservative philosophers of an earlier age understood this well, which was why they resorted to religious language and imagery to justify traditional authority and its claims upon each individual.
But the individualism of the new Left respected neither collective purpose nor traditional authority: it was, after all, both new and left. What remained to it was the subjectivism of private
and privately-measured
interest and desire. This, in turn, invited a resort to aesthetic and moral relativism: if something is good for me it is not incumbent upon me to ascertain whether it is good for someone else
much less to impose it upon them ("do your own thing"). — Tony Judt

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different. — Dave Goldberg

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people. — Malcolm X

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information ... measles is preventable. — Barack Obama

Discretion is the better part of valor. — William Shakespeare

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. — Alfred Adler

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience. — Ruhollah Khomeini

Some of us may have experienced it when we find ourselves cooperating naturally and effortlessly, instruments of a purpose greater than ourselves that, paradoxically, makes us individual more and not less when we abandon ourselves to it. It is what musicians are referring to when they say "The music played the band — Charles Eisenstein

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling. — Ernest King