Zelter Viola Quotes & Sayings

Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority ... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada. — C.S. Lewis

Real gifts don't demand reciprocation (at least not direct reciprocation), and the best kinds of gifts are gifts of art. — Seth Godin

Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass. — Lisa Henry

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening. — Alan Watts

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura. — Frank Herbert

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. — Rudyard Kipling

The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature ... [In] the formation of the American governments ... it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven ... These governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses. — John Adams

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy. — Nathan Fillion

Wisdom lies only in truth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive. — William Bridges