Franz Liszt Quotes

The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

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• The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Why
  • Strong

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Know

• Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Business
  • Changes
  • Now

• I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Technological

• I think most of us are outsiders. And I think that's good because it makes you question things.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Good
  • Think
  • Question

• There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Me
  • Always
  • Injuries

• I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Time
  • Model
  • Place

• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Principles

• Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Trust
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Live

• There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Light
  • Hand
  • Lonely

• If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • May
  • Pride

• My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • God
  • Hope

• I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Life
  • Book
  • Opinion

• This business is all about being seen, and the more people see you the better.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • People
  • Business

• I follow dancers like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, as they are in my zone, but when it comes to Indian dancing, I am a huge Madhuri Dixit fan.

  

  Disha Patani

• 'Besides-we all know guns don’t kill people,do they?''No, it’s the small metal projectiles that generally do the killing,' Cahuella said, smiling.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • People
  • Small

• The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Society
  • Man
  • Violence

• If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.

  

  Peter Mullan
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• The principal task of a conductor is not to put himself in evidence but to disappear behind his functions as much as possible. We are pilots, not servants.

  

  Franz Liszt