Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Henry George

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry Cantwell Wallace

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

John Adams

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Ellen Glasgow

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

Mark Twain

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Human nature is not obliged to be consistent.

Jonah Lehrer

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

Frank B. Kellogg

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Peggy Cohen

The notes said they weren't suffering, they were just going to sleep.

Pamela Anderson

I'm known for my handwritten notes.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar?

Gabriel Mann

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Steve Denyes

They are still using the original notes from the symphony, but they are personalizing the arrangement and making it their own.

David Stern

The only record we have are your notes and your recollection.

William Blake

The sound is forced, the notes are few!

Leonard Nimoy

Find out what it is that touches you most deeply. Pursue it, learn about it, explore it, expand on it. Live with it and nurture it.

Davey Havok

I attribute a lot of the success to Live 105, of course, because it's something they've nurtured and grown.

Diana Ross

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.