Awadagin Pratt Quotes

#1. Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

Daniel Breaker

#2. I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.

Buzz Aldrin

#3. God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

William Cowper

#4. Suffering always reveal idols of the heart.

James MacDonald

#5. Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#6. Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

Marc Pamittan

#7. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen

Herman Melville

#8. You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

Orson Scott Card

#9. I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Margaret Spellings

#10. It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

Murray Kempton

#11. Love is the lifeblood of the heart.

G.A. Stratton