Fanny Mendelssohn Quotes

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

Fanny Mendelssohn

• Power
• Value
• Opinion
• Pleasure
• Judging

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Want
  • Tyrants
  • Seldom

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Face
  • Times
  • Joke

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • First
  • Short
  • Hear

• 'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Play
  • Lucky

• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • God
  • Thinking

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Old
  • Answer
  • Affirmative

• The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Magic
  • First
  • Broadway

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Help
  • Freedom
  • Words

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Education

• It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Love
  • Pain
  • Expression

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Myself

• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  

  William James
  • Trying
  • Moving
  • Risk

• The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Man
  • Media
  • Creation

• Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Dad
  • Design
  • Inspired

• The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm in a sport where people don't look at us like women: they don't look at us like being girls or feminine. But I've been girly all my life, and so I couldn't separate... between the sport and being a woman.

  

  Michelle Carter
  • People
  • Women
  • Between

• If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them, but all power of judging their value.

  

  Fanny Mendelssohn
  • Power
  • Value
  • Opinion