"To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius."

-- Lukas Foss

#Quality Quotes #Genius Quotes #Contradictory Quotes

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.”
“For you see, the face of destiny or luck or god that gives us war also gives us other kinds of pain: the loss of health and youth; the loss of loved ones or of love; the fear that we will end our days alone. Some people suffer in peace the way others suffer in war. The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach us forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.”

Source : Le Ly Hayslip (2012). “When Heaven & Earth Change Places”, p.16, Doubleday
“I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.”

Source : National Press Club address| Q & A session, jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.au. September 18, 2013 - September 21, 2015.
“Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.”
“There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.”
“We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.”

Source : Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr
“I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.”
“One year of the worldâ€™s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.”

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