"Man thinks, God directs. [Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]"

-- Alcuin

#God Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.”
“Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.”
“The term â€˜quadrilateralâ€™ does not occur in the Wesley corpus â€“ and more than once, I have regretted having coined it for contemporary use, since it has been so widely misconstrued”
“I didnâ€™t know what made people want to be friends. I didnâ€™t know what made people attractive to one another. I didnâ€™t know what underlay social interactions.”
“Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”

Source : In Peter Yates Twentieth Century Music (1967) pt. 1, ch. 8. Cf. T. S. Eliot 76:8, Lionel Trilling 218:1
“I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.”
“A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust,”

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