"I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that."

-- Kiri Te Kanawa

#Hands Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Slap Quotes

“As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.”

Source : Source: www.today.com
“You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.”
“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
“The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.”
“If miracles be incredible, Christianity is false. If Christ wrought no miracles, then the Gospels are untrustworthy.”

Source : Frederic William Farrar (1875). “The Witness of History to Christ: Five Sermons Preached Before the University of Cambridge : Being the Hulsean Lectures for the Year 1870”, p.25
“I think my music being referred to as "cinematic" has a lot to do with people just not being used to listening to instrumental music without watching a film. I'm still pretty convinced of that. You'll play Chopin in place of something average and like, "Wow, that'd be great in a film." People say it every time, swear to God. I don't think people have a good relationship with instruments and music anymore. But it's definitely visual; I started writing with this band because of the pictures. I can't really deny it either, you know?”
“When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.”
“People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.”

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