“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.” JoyAbilityMusicDignityAbsolutesBreathsPhrasesSignificancePassagesPrimitiveSimplestEnergeticSqueezingMotifsDignity And Strength Author:Robert Genn
“What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.” LongProblemUsedReligiousNumbersLordAtheismDangerConcernAbsolutesThreatPositive AtheismAccessPhrasesDogmaFanaticismAlarmsLarge NumbersMilitantInfidel Author:Anthony Storr
“This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.” GivingFirstsReligionSkyGiving UpDirectAbsolutesOriginalsSeparationPhrasesRepublicAmendmentsCurrencyNot Giving UpViolationFirst AmendmentDo Not Give UpGod We Trust Author:Gore Vidal
“Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.” HeartBookStoriesEyeGrowsGeniusEarsAbsolutesStrongerDetailsPhrasesWiserTrailsHeartbreakingStunningNew BooksMasons Author:Josephine Humphreys
“The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.” PeoplePartyChildhoodConsciousAbsolutesPhrasesEnlightenedCommunistSovietConcreteDictatorSecretaryCommunist Party Author:Vladimir Sorokin
“What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.” Would BeFallMusic IsAbsolutesStructureNotesFinishedStaringPhrasesStrokesEvidentCagesInkMeticulousTranscribing Author:Peter Shaffer
“[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.” KnowsHas BeensUseLostSeeingCryDespairUnderstoodClaimsAbsolutesCriticsPhrasesMistakenCheated Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.” IfsHumansGodWould BeHumanityLibertyConditionsLoversAbsolutesAdmirePhrasesJealousReverseAbolish Book:God and the State Source: God and the State
“I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.” ComfortDespairAbsolutesPhrases Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.” NightHeardWorstAbsolutesPhrasesWrestlingMondayMonday Night Author:Stone Cold Steve Austin