It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J. R. R. TOLKIENArt is difficult, transient is her reward.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
QUEEN VICTORIA -
By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE -
Humans are imperfect. That’s one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We’re on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
BRANFORD MARSALIS -
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE -
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
DENIS WAITLEY -
During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.
BIANCA JAGGER -
No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.
SAPPHO -
I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
VINCENT VAN GOGH -
I thought of something my old coach at Staunton had often said: ‘We win some, we lose some, and some get rained out; but we always suit up.’
BARRY GOLDWATER -
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK -
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe.
BILLY ZANE -
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
NOAM CHOMSKY -
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER -
Faith is the union of God and the soul.
JOHN OF THE CROSS -
Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.
JUVENAL