Quotes...
This is simply a collection of quotes that I have come
across and, for whatever reason, they have moved me in some way...I'm keeping
them in reverse chronological order so that the new ones will always be
on top. Enjoy!
"You can mandate compliance, but you cannot mandate committment."
Unknown
"Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow." - Johann
W. von Goethe (1749-1832)
"What, indeed, is more beautiful than to clothe one's feelings in sound?
What a comfort in sad times, what a pleasure, what a wonderful feeling
- to provide an hour of happiness to others." Clara Wieck, letter
to Robert Schumann (1836)
"Mental preparation is the single most critical element in peak performance."
- Jack Nicklaus, Golf My Way (1994)
"A musician cannot move others unless he himself is moved." -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Essay (1753)
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down
there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."
- Marian Anderson (1897 - 1993), Opera Singer
"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Albert Cadmus
"Be really whole and all things will come to you." - Lao-tzu
"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire."
- Wililam Butler Yeats
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god
than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible
gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
"We do not quit playing because we grow old; We grow old because
we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"We have it in our power to begin the world again." - Thomas
Paine (1732 - 1809)
"Yes, dear, you're Lasombra...but that's no reflection on you..."
- Jeremy B. on learning that
a recently embraced blood-doll was, indeed, Sabbat (1997)
"To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself
once in a while."
- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818-1885)