Dinu Lipatti Quotes

#1. Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

Elizabeth Berg

#2. A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller.

China Mieville

#3. Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

Richard Wagner

#4. Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

Arthur Balfour

#5. Here is a vocation that will bring you more satisfaction than if you became a millionaire ten times over: Develop the extraordinary skill for detecting the burdens of others and devote yourself daily to making them lighter.

John Piper

#6. Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can,

Joe Abercrombie

#7. Could it be found, a single word for today and yesterday, with their jumble of indistinguishable, all too complicated colors, a word to embrace all the tomorrows? (O 1989: 229)

O Chonghui

#8. I don't think writers compete, I think they're all doing separate things in their own style.

Elmore Leonard

#9. Yes, I have often battled Grief. / Both of us used our teeth.

Sherman Alexie

#10. Amazing that you can get a cappuccino at a gas station in L.A. at four in the morning and you can't buy a stamp at the post office in Sofia.

Annie Ward

#11. Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Christian Lous Lange

#12. Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.

Thich Nhat Hanh