Metastasio Quotes

#1. Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

Richard Strauss

#2. The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

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#3. You have rules to learn and penalties to experience
- Nox

Aleatha Romig

#4. I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.

Marguerite Moreau

#5. An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

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#6. If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects of pity?

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#7. There are good sailors. Well, some good sailors. In a way they are ideal as husbands. They drop in every six months for a wild celebration, then they drop out again before one gets bored with their company or annoyed with by their habits.

Kerry Greenwood

#8. I am beautiful soul with beautiful mind and beautiful body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Charles Bent

#10. Though the Indian ocean abounds in rich and rare gems, it does not boast a clearer sky nor more unruffled sea. If there be a shore that dreads not the fury of the faithless billows, it is some poor and narrow inlet unknown to the winds.

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#11. If you wish to behold God, you may see Him in every object around; search in your breast, and you will find Him there. And if you do not yet perceive where He dwells, confute me, if you can, and say where He is not.

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#12. It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

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#13. My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collecting for a long time. There are a lot of flea markets in that part of France, and she knew what I liked.

Olivier Theyskens

#14. Prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.

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#15. Every woman has a record of her body - a closet full of jeans and bras of various sizes, albums full of photographs revealing periods of weight gain and loss.

Padma Lakshmi

#16. Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,
why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

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#17. We are like vessels tossed on the bosom of the deep; our passions are the winds that sweep us impetuously forward; each pleasure is a rock; the whole life is a wide ocean. Reason is the pilot to guide us, but often allows itself to be led astray by the storms of pride.

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#18. How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

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#19. The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust, something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens.

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#20. Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Kelly Wearstler

#21. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

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#22. High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

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#23. I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

Natascha McElhone

#24. Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.

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#25. Fortune is the best school of courage when she is fraught with anger, in the same way as winds and tempests are the school of the sailorboy.

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#26. The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its head, the more strongly it strikes its roots into the ground, acquiring strength as it loses beauty.

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#27. I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

Tiger Woods

#28. The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

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#29. Love is a feeling that comes into our hearts of our own choice for neither force nor harshness can limit the heart's freedom.

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#30. I hope to continue to be serving South Dakota in Congress.

Stephanie Herseth

#31. If every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?

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#32. I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

Michael Sheen

#33. It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

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#34. Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

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#35. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

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#36. We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart.

Juan Enriquez