"Even an ordinary broken chord is made to disclose rare beauties; we are reminded of the fairies' hazelnuts in which diamonds were concealed but you could break the shell only if your hands were blessed."

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Source : The Manchester Guardian, 1939.

Neville Cardus

#Blessed Quotes #Hands Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.”
“We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.”

Source : Joan Ryan (2009). “The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
“The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.”

Source : Press Statement, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 08, 2015.
“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”
“There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.”

Source : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. March 31, 2009.
“When you feel you cannot do good, at least desist from doing evil.”
“Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.”
“When I first started to beatbox on the microphone with the Get Fresh Crew, people were shocked. Some things are just supposed to happen and you have to roll with it.”

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