Taruskin Shostakovich Quotes

#1. Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Kate Morton

#2. What is the difference between disrespect (avinay) and despise (viradhana)? Disrespect (avinay) means one shows lack of respect and to despise (viradhana) means one becomes an adversary (opponent).

Dada Bhagwan

#3. He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Alexander Pope

#4. I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#5. The Taellywood treasure beckoned us. All of us ached for God's wisdom. We had so many questions. We wanted to know why things happened the way they did. We needed to know. We desired the truth and we yearned for answers to many of life's questions.

Pat Patrick

#6. And this was something I would always wonder about - how the lines were drawn to define mental illness. When did a little depression become pathological? When did anxiety turn into something bigger, something greater and more cautionary about your own stability?

Kate Axelrod

#7. The noble heart finds most in starlike eyes.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#8. You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

Malorie Blackman

#9. I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

#10. If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are fighting the wrong battle.

T. B. Joshua

#11. I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

Salman Rushdie

#12. When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because you're constantly surrounded by people saying, 'Oh, she's too short, she's too skinny, she's this, she's whatever.' And you're right there. They're talking about you, and you're right there.

Cara Delevingne

#13. Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

Bill Hybels

#14. Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

Tim Gordon

#15. Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

George Amos Dorsey