"I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!"

-- Charles Hazlewood

#Hate Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Piano Quotes

“I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.”

Source : Sarra Manning (2011). “You Don't Have to Say You Love Me”, p.241, Random House
“Wake the sleeper must, and confront his fears, or risk being lost in the dark places of the mind forever.”
“Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.”
“Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!”
“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.”

Source : Stanley Kunitz, “The Layers”
“To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.”
“It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.”

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