Zandonai Composer Quotes & Sayings

What is passable in youth is detestable in later age — Jane Austen

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience. — Carlton D. Pearson

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies. — Sheherazade Goldsmith

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. — Richard Strauss

My colleague Senator John Ensign of Nevada told me a story that epitomizes the selfishness of our culture: When I was a teenager, I had a sticker in my car with a picture of a bear scratching himself on the tree, and under it was the saying, 'If it feels good, do it!' That was the motto of the '60s and the '70s, and certainly it is the motto today. The image of the bear scratching himself highlights a view of human beings as animals, and that people should do what pleases them at the moment without a thought to the broader long-term consequences of their actions. — Rick Santorum

It's the silence that scares me. It's the blank page on which I can write my own fears. — Mark Lawrence

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders - they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming - which is unending. — Rajneesh