Graesser Extractor Quotes

#1. For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. Life isn't fair, he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

Lemony Snicket

#3. All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman's silence receiving the river's grace, the gardener's musing on rows ...

Wendell Berry

#4. The music of hope is everywhere. All you have to do is listen for it.

Christine M. Knight

#5. God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world.

N. T. Wright

#6. Life is just a bag of pot.

Iggy Pop

#7. Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.

Naoyuki Ochiai

#8. Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

Edith Schaeffer