Richard Wagner Quotes

I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

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• Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • I Can

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Dinner

• I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Nobody owns me or my music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Nobody

• The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.

  

  David Deida
  • Work
  • Men
  • Giving

• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Commerce
  • Conducted

• Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Desire
  • Idea
  • Victory

• So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Book

• Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Life
  • Man
  • Goal

• Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Looks
  • Poor

• Our very eyes Are sometimes, like our judgments, blind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Sometimes
  • Eye
  • Judgment

• A mind at peace does not engender wars.

  

  Sophocles
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Wars

• “The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.”

  

  C Robert Cargill
  • World
  • Man
  • Leaves

• And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I said above, if a prince wishes to maintain the state, he is often obliged not to be good; because whenever that group which you believe you need to support you is corrupted, whether it be the common people, the soldiers, or the nobles, it is to your advantage to follow their inclinations in order to satisfy them; and then good actions are your enemy.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Prince
  • State
  • Maintain

• I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for 'Tannhauser' and brought it to completion.

  

  Richard Wagner
  • State
  • Completion
  • Agitation