Charles Rosen Quotes
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.
Walter Kirn
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
Natalie Massenet
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings
Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
Walter Gropius
Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
Walt Mossberg
I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
Karl Rove
I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
Victoria Pendleton
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
Jacky Ickx
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth II
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather
The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
Hans Jonas
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Adam Clarke
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa of Avila
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Alexander Pope
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
David Attenborough
A plate of food has to have balance. For example, a mild fish like skate mustn't be overwhelmed by the side dishes. They should have personality and color, but they also have to be subtle.
Geoffrey Zakarian
America is a country of excess.
Norman Lear
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen
