"Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?"

-- Matsuo Basho

#Life Quotes #World Quotes #Plums Quotes

“I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.”
“The problem to solve is, whether a single or a double government would be most advantageous; and, in considering that point, I am met by this difficulty - that I cannot see that the present form of government is a double government at all.”

Source : Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.379
“When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.”
“Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”
“If you can drink beer while doing it, it's not a sport”
“And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.”
“The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.”

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