“It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.” LooksPastGivenStepsWeakIntellectProvidence Author:George B. McClellan
“Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.” WorldYearsHas BeensEndsEffortSubjectsDiscussionLastingDevotedWorld History Author:George C. Marshall
“I am certain that a solution of the general problem of peace must rest on broad and basic understanding on the part of its peoples. Great single endeavors like a League of Nations, a United Nations, and undertakings of that character, are of great importance and in fact absolutely necessary, but they must be treated as steps toward the desired end.” EndsCharacterFactsProblemCertainNationsUnderstandingUnitedStepsSolutionsImportanceTreatedLeagueBroadsEndeavorUnited NationsUndertakingsLeague Of Nations Author:George C. Marshall
“You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.” KnowsActorsWalksKnow HowStagePicksOscarsStage Actors Author:Ian Mckellen
“The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.” PeopleThinkingSeemsLevelsAchieveIgnoranceComfortHorrorNormalLowsAverageMediocreSinkingAbnormalProximityLow LevelAbnormality Book:the Human Mind Source: the Human Mind
“Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole.” WholeConnectionsMirrorsInstitutionsChiefsUnitsPatriarchy Author:Kate Middleton
“My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the external manifestations of thought and feeling must, without exaggeration or violence, become true, accurate music.” HumansFeelingsSoundViolenceSpeechArtisticManifestationShadeAccurateFinestExaggerationReproductionThoughts And Feelings Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
“In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz.” TwoFineGiantsRoughThinkerBerlioz Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
“I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.” PeopleIdeasProblemRegardInspiredSolveOpera Author:Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
“In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.” ReasonSufferingEvilDangerAdversityComplainingEstimating Author:Norm MacDonald
