A song will outlive all sermons in the memory. —Henry Giles More about this quote Tags: memory music songs sermons Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am all for singing. If I had had children, I should have hounded them into choirs and choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets. —Sylvia Townsend Warner More about this quote Tags: children music singing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: music pain seriousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Country music is three chords and the truth. —Harlan Howard More about this quote Tags: truth music country music chords Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rock-and-roll starts between the legs and goes through the heart, then to the head. As long as it does those three things, it's a great rock song. —John Mellencamp More about this quote Tags: music heart head songs rock and roll legs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and, instead of bleeding, he sings. —Robert Benchley More about this quote Tags: music singing opera Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance. —Thomas Cahill More about this quote Tags: war history pain grace catastrophe outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The days are too short even for love; how can there ever be time for quarreling? —Margaret Gatty More about this quote Tags: love time fighting quarreling Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. —Henry Miller More about this quote Tags: life acceptance peace enjoyment conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. —Orson Welles More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the dead have seen the end of war. —Plato More about this quote Tags: war death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: war hate irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not against all wars — just whichever is current. —Ken Gillespie More about this quote Tags: war opposition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. —Barbara Deming More about this quote Tags: nonviolence violence oppression liberation oppressed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email