William Wetmore Story Quotes

But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Music
  • Play
  • Picture

• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Work
  • Persistence
  • Work Hard

• You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Success
  • Never
  • Doing

• I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Love
  • Winning
  • Everything

• My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Women
  • Shoes
  • Brand

• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Famous

• Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

  

  Deepak Chopra

• People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Wonder

• I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Strong

• For me, the issue is if I'm your advocate, if I'm your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.

  

  Pete Gallego
  • Up
  • Job

• When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Work
  • Success
  • Dance

• Kids are anarchy writ large.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Kids

• When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

  

  Alain Prost

• Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • God
  • Church
  • Spirit

• We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Country
  • Family
  • Done

• I think just the above things. I think I wanted to learn from both cultures. So, I think the music is a little more reflective of the... Catholic culture but the theology, obviously, is much more Reformational.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Wanted

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• But the gray and the cold are haunted by a beauty akin to pain, by a sense of a something wanted that never will come again.

  

  William Wetmore Story
  • Pain
  • Wanted