"If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth."

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Source : "Shostakovich: A Life". Book by Laurel Elizabeth Fay, p. 92, 2000.

Dmitri Shostakovich

#Cutting Quotes #Hands Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.”
“The more you know the less you talk.”
“Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.”
“Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.”
“Every second counts. We are only on this earth for a short amount of time, and we get to decide how we want to use that time. And if one thinks that the purpose of life is to leave the world in just a little bit better place than we found it, it's hard to think of anyone who has contributed more than Jane Goodall.”
“You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.”
“My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.”
“When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.”

Source : FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Aug 15, 2011

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