Goldberg Variations Quotes

#1. Goldberg Variations. The simplicity of the opening aria calmed her nerves. Bach

John Tesarsch

#2. Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#3. That which we remember is, more often than not, that which we would like to have been; or that which we hope to be. Thus our memory and our identity are ever at odds; our history ever a tale told by inattentive idealists.

Ralph Ellison

#4. Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. Just for carrying on, really. Sometimes, my darling girl, that's heroic in itself.

Jojo Moyes

#6. Not everyone knows how to be silent or to leave in good time. It happens that even people of good breeding fail to notice that their presence provokes in the weary or preoccupied host a feeling akin to hatred, and that this feeling is tensely concealed and covered up with lies.

Anton Chekhov

#7. Words are mostly used to keep us asleep, not to wake us.

Richard Flanagan

#8. He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

Anthony Trollope