Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
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The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
~quotes on Libraries by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
~sayings on Attitude by Arthur Christopher Benson I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.
~quotations on Walking by Will Rogers Success comes oftener through right attitude than great ability. Several companies were going under through lack of money. They hired consultants who points out theirs problem was not a money problem, but an idea problem. New ideas saved them.
~motivational basketball quote by People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines.... It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel.
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When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.
~quote about Attitude by Author Unknown If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
~quotes on History by John Acton Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
~sayings on Music by Henry David Thoreau Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
~quotations on Honesty by Lin Yutang It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.
~motivational basketball quote by Mike Royko Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~saying about basketball by Abraham Lincoln Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~quote about Perspective by Andre Gide Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
~quotes on Gratitude by François Duc de La Rochefoucauld There are no pockets in a shroud.
~sayings on Money by Author Unknown Even eminent chartered accountants are known, in their capacity as fishermen, blissfully to ignore differences between seven and ten inches, half a pound and two pounds, three fish and a dozen fish.
~quotations on Fishing by William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954 If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
~motivational basketball quote by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
~saying about basketball by Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker, 1955 It's not a slam at you when people are rude - it's a slam at the people they've met before.
~quote about Manners by F. Scott Fitzgerald There was a star danced, and under that was I born
~quotes on Birth by William Shakespeare Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.
~sayings on Poverty by Eli Khamarov, Lives of the Cognoscenti If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.
~quotations on Family by Letty Cottin Pogrebin Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.
~motivational basketball quote by H.W. Lewis, Technological Risk, 1990 Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown
~saying about basketball by China Man Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
~quote about Health by Marcus Valerius Martial One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.
~quotes on Racism by Franklin Thomas Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
~sayings on Environment by Ian McHarg Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he cried, Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them? God said, I did do something. I made you.
~quotations on Helping by Author Unknown Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.
~motivational basketball quote by John Adams Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
~saying about basketball by Alice Walker We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
~quote about Censorship by John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859 Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
~quotes on Confidence by Veronica A. Shoffstall, After a While, 1971 Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
~sayings on Peace by Ralph Waldo Emerson When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
~quotations on Wise Words by Texan Proverb A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out
~motivational basketball quote by Grace Pulpit What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind
~saying about basketball by Claudian Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
~quote about Living by Jean Cocteau, Professional Secrets, 1922 It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
~quotes on Philosophical by Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872
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