"Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character...."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Character Quotes #Moderation Quotes #Proof Quotes

“Passion is something you'd easily die for. It's something you'd be honored to die for. It's something that's stronger than any machine man can create. It actually gives a mortal person wings.”
“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

Source : "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.
“I've been a Raider all my life.”
“If good preaching could save the world, it would have been done long ago.”
“I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.”
“The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.”
“Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he's an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he's there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town.”
“I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.”

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