Caughey Hearn Quotes

#1. When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

Steven Spielberg

#2. I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

Joe Elliott

#3. I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.

Zig Ziglar

#4. Don't waste your prayers on the past, when the future is where you're going.

Ginn Hale

#5. Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

Tahereh Mafi

#6. Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

Jim DeMint

#7. Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Life is simple:
We lose and regain; and the wheel keeps spinning and the wheel keeps spinning.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"
Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets of Constantinople."
Alp Arslan: "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you, and set you free.

Alp Arslan

#10. I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.

Jack White

#11. Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors ... History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

Rudy Giuliani

#12. Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it's a weak force. Nations are never virtuous, though they might sometimes think they are.

Ian McEwan