"Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out, while Romantic grows from outside in."

-- Ned Rorem

#Mean Quotes #Classic Quotes #Standards Quotes

“Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.”
“Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.”
“I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.”
“You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.”
“My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.”

Source : "Rudolf Hess: Prisoner of Peace". Book by Ilse Hess, 1982.
“It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.”
“If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.”
“In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It's not 'if;' it's 'how.'”

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