"However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my kingdom. And since I'm the only one with the authority to surrender it, I can also take it back."

-- Helen Oyeyemi

#Disappointment Quotes #Heart Quotes #Storm Quotes

“Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.”
“I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.”
“Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.”

Source : Leopold Auer (1960). “Violin Playing as I Teach it”, p.69, Courier Corporation
“We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.”
“It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.”
“If some day they take the radio station away from us, if they close down our newspaper, if they donâ€™t let us speak, if they kill all the priests and the bishop too, and you are left, a people without priests, each one of you must be Godâ€™s microphone, each one of you must be a messenger, a prophet. The church will always exist as long as there is one baptized person. And that one baptized person who is left in the world is responsible before the world for holding aloft the banner of the Lordâ€™s truth and of his divine justice.”
“I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way.”
“Harriet Jones: When they fart, if you'll pardon the word, it doesn't smell like a fart, pardon the word, it's like something else. What is it? It's more like um... Rose: Bad breath! Harriet Jones: That's it! The Doctor: Calcium decay! Now that narrows it down! Calcium phosphate. Organic calciumâ€”living calciumâ€”creatures made out of living calcium, what else? What else? Hyphenated surname! YES! That narrows it down to one planet: Raxacoricofallapatorius! Mickey Smith: [dryly] Oh yeah, great. We can write 'em a letter!”

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