"Nature uncovers the inner secrets of nature in two ways: one by the force of bodies operating outside it; the other by the very movements of its innards. The external actions are strong winds, rains, river currents, sea waves, ice, forest fires, floods; there is only one internal force-earthquake."

-- Mikhail Lomonosov

#Strong Quotes #Rain Quotes #Ice Quotes

“You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.”
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”
“I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!”
“The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.”
“Remember, Monsieur, that Saint Augustine says that a person who does not obey the doctors is doing his best to kill himself.”
“The program I use is called MED Soundstudio. It's basically a column of numbers that relate to pitch, duration, the type of sound. If I want to play a chord, I have to press keys on a keyboard - like a computer keyboard, on my Amiga - that relate to sharps and flats, note by note.”
“If you see a better world, you're morally obligated to create it”
“His [Donald Trump] words were foul and detestable and we all should acknowledge that.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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