Handel Messiah Quotes

#1. The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others

Iain Banks

#2. The object isn't to die for your country, it's to make the other poor slob die for his.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

Dave Brubeck

#4. When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face

John Drinkwater

#5. There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Frank Schaeffer

#6. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

#7. I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Paul Theroux

#8. Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

George Ogilvie

#9. Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. My mom is a very religious woman. So when I began recording music, I was afraid she wouldn't accept it. But when I played her a song, she loved it.

Leon Bridges

#11. She could shut out the whole world, including herself.

Alice Sebold

#12. Falling in love maybe destiny but be in love its depend on your Honesty

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#13. Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

Roy Rogers

#14. Don't just dream of success; create a plan and act upon it! Your momentum creates the door upon which opportunity knocks.

Steve Maraboli

#15. Love, once given, is forever. It canna simply go away.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Rebekah Brooks

#17. Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

Jennifer Donnelly