Aeolian Harp Quotes

#1. Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.

Novalis

#2. They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Aeolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.

Stendhal

#3. The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Edmund Burke

#4. The last officer named was Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island; a man of limited education and military experience limited to two years of peacetime militia duty, he nevertheless was destined to be the best of the lot.27

John Ferling

#5. You are a wonder.

R.J. Palacio

#6. Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.

Penelope Farmer

#7. If you have an idea, you will likely have difficulties during the process of
realization regardless of the type of idea (scientific idea, invention idea,
business idea, new product idea, brand idea, advertising idea, etc.).

Eraldo Banovac

#8. Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#9. I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

Milton Friedman

#10. Mentally, he's not the same person anymore (Paul Williams).

Sergio Martinez

#11. That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Mark Twain

#12. When they let me out of disciplinary segregation this morning, I knew they were probably letting Gigi out too, which meant that my level of safety and comfort had shrunk to nothing.

Jessica N. Watkins

#13. Now- I don't know what you think of when I say dragon. Whatever it is- it's not scary enough.

Rick Riordan

#14. Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.

Johnny Cash

#15. Travers didn't say anything, but she nodded in agreement. Jade silently thanked her for being quiet. He needed quiet right now.

Gregg Hurwitz

#16. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.

Carl R. Rogers

#17. Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest.

Piet Pieterszoon Hein