Edgar Guest Quotes
To have no secret place whereinI stoop unseen to shame or sin;To be the same when I'm aloneAs when my every deed is known;To live undaunted, unafraidOf any step that I have made;To be without pretense or shamExactly what men think I am.
Quotes to Explore
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Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
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It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.
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A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'
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There is no greater medal than to be acclaimed for your style.
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To have no secret place whereinI stoop unseen to shame or sin;To be the same when I'm aloneAs when my every deed is known;To live undaunted, unafraidOf any step that I have made;To be without pretense or shamExactly what men think I am.
