Arthur O'Shaughnessy Quotes

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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• If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Disciple

• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Know
  • Process
  • Creation

• These people are amazing. It's so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Amazing

• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Good
  • Business

• Ch. 4 : The Garden

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Garden

• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Night
  • Words

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn'€™t think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Up
  • Children
  • Advice

• Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • War
  • Nature

• You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • History
  • Future
  • Waiting

• Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Singing

• I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  

  Mark Shields

• On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

  

  Betsy Beers

• The call of the Word of God to the gospel ministry comes to ALL those who have the gifts for such a ministry.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Gospel
  • Word Of God
  • Ministry

• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Fall

• The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it.

  

  Bill Barich
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Fault

• O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

  

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy
  • Silence
  • Flow
  • Pause