Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

Stephen Sondheim

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• Anticipation
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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• It takes heart to be in political life.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Political

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Music
  • Love
  • Soul

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Democracy

• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Soul
  • Me

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

  

  Felix Mendelssohn
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Words

• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Man

• Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Heart

• The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Strong

• I have no remedy for fear; there growsNo herb of help to heal a coward heart.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Fear

• The aphorism 'as a man thinketh in his heart so is he' contains the secret of life.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Heart

• I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about my heart with my doctor, and getting my numbers checked, and discussing the results. And I make sure that I understand the answers to my questions.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Heart

• Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Heart
  • Ignore

• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Write

• Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Work
  • Learning

• If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Death
  • Interest
  • Public

• All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Free
  • Prayer

• If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • War
  • Carry
  • Lock

• Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Anticipation