Frederic Chopin Quotes

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Frederic Chopin

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Know
  • Creative

• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• I just worked my own personal thoughts into my music, and just kept at it until I found a way in.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Own

• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • True
  • Government
  • Best

• When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movie
  • You
  • Movies

• I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Age
  • Dreams
  • Your Dreams

• The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Kids
  • Way
  • Best

• I'll always be Chinese first. It probably isn't politically correct to say or something that the majority understands; I can change my shoes, I can swap my passport, but, I'll always have this face.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Change
  • Always
  • Shoes

• We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • World
  • America
  • Me

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Clever

• Most government and corporate leaders would have trouble getting people to follow them out of a burning building. One way you can tell the worst of them is that they talk about leadership a lot. I doubt Winston Churchill ever used the word. Or, for that matter, Attila the Hun.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Leadership

• A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Present

• When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Eyes
  • Air

• Circumstantial evidence is evidence.

  

  Bernard Goldberg

• I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

  

  Kit Harington
  • Children
  • Parents

• Portland is the perfect weekend getaway. I studied acting in Portland and lived there for five years. It's a small city with so much to do. There's beautiful scenery, a great bar scene, and so many fabulous restaurants.

  

  Kenneth Choi
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Small

• We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Freedom
  • Taxes

• Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

  

  Frederic Chopin