Hector Berlioz Quotes

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Hector Berlioz

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• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons

• You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Union
  • Negroes

• People talk about the exciting growth prospects in Brazil, China and India, but they forget that the US is not as developed as Western Europe. Plus, 66 million users in India will not have a huge ARPU, but it would be a lot of money in the US.

  

  John Whiting
  • Growth
  • Forget
  • Exciting

• So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Freedom
  • Realized
  • Intolerance

• After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Party
  • Problem

• If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.

  

  William Penn
  • Compassion
  • Ends
  • Compass

• Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Connections
  • Plants
  • Instance

• Modesty is the highest elegance.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Modesty
  • Elegance

• I still get excited about it. I miss playing ball.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Playing
  • Excited
  • Still

• All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Men
  • Accomplish
  • Ideals

• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Fly
  • Appear
  • Soar

• At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Modesty
  • Failings