"We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public."

-- Glenn Miller

#Leader Quotes #Band Quotes #Get Up Quotes

“Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?”

Source : FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 06, 2012
“If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's an active way of looking at media, whereas a movie or a TV will be passive, because they are showing you the tree. In the same way, when somebody sings a song for you, those words get so much in the foreground, that even if you take a minor key of music and then put like happy lyrics to it and people think it's a happy song. So, in a song, you are told what to feel, whereas, in an instrumental music, you get as much out of it as you are willing to put into it.”
“Many appear full of mildness and sweetness as long as everything goes their own way; but the moment any contradiction or adversity arises, they are in a flame, and begin to rage like a burning mountain. Such people as these are like red-hot coals hidden under ashes. This is not the mildness which Our Lord undertook to teach us in order to make us like unto Himself.”
“The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make me warm and fuzzy.”
“It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.”
“Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.”
“Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.”
“Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.”

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