We all owe each
We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection. Eugenie de Guerin
Sake
Oh righteous doom, that
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way. Eugene Ionesco
The more obstinately you
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not … Read more
To live fully, outwardly
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task Etty Hillesum
When I pray, I
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for … Read more
I don’t believe in
I don’t believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so. Esa-Pekka Salonen
When I get ready
When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I’ve been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It’s almost like I start creating the album before I even … Read more
One cannot permit unique
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. Erwin Rommel
Jesus did not have
Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer’s sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man. Erwin McManus
Hitler can’t walk over
Hitler can’t walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I’ve seen to that. Don’t forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the … Read more