Msnbc Store Quotes

#1. The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.
(on Elgar)

Thomas Beecham

#2. Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

Craig Armstrong

#3. In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Ruth Park

#4. The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Mark Twain

#5. Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.

B.C. Forbes

#6. Time is a running factor; once it goes, it cannot be reclaimed

Sunday Adelaja

#7. How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

Richard Wright

#8. Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways. I would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their choices are really made for them.

Frederick Lenz

#9. The first stage of this tranquility consists in silencing the lips when the heart is excited. The second, in silencing the mind when the soul is still excited. The goal is a perfect peacefulness even in the middle of the raging storm.

John Climacus

#10. Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#11. Conquering fear didn't mean not being afraid, it meant being afraid of something and doing it anyway. It meant saying no to fear-no you can't rule me, no you can't hold me back, no you can't keep me from the things I want the most.

Laura Kaye

#12. None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

Thomas Watson

#13. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist