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Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

Hans Christian Andersen quote: "Where words fail, music speaks."

Where words fail, music speaks.

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The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. Franz Halder
If you sit down and think about it *sensibly*, you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying 'THIS IS IT!'? ... I mean, why do that if you really don't *want* them to eat it, eh? I mean, maybe you just want to see how it all turns out. Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything. Some great big test to see if what... Neil Gaiman
Cormac McCarthy quote: "The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries."
The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries. Cormac McCarthy
When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too. Nikos Kazantzakis
Ezra Stiles quote: "The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in..."
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. Ezra Stiles
I've been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in 'Tommy.' I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older. JoJo
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. Robert Heller
Alveda King quote: "We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a..."
We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some. Alveda King
My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two. Cheryl Ladd
...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all. Alexander Dumas
My final thought now is that as in religion and the arts, so in politics; if men do not balance their feelings and intelligence they lose command of both - and worse still, of their object. Sean O'Faolain
Jack Kilby quote: "I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very..."
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently. Jack Kilby
People will tell you it was Vietnam brought this country to its knees. But I never believed that. It was already in bad shape. Vietnam was just the icin on the cake. We didn't have nothin to give to em to take over there. If we'd sent em without rifles I dont know as they'd of been all that much worse off. You can't go to war like that. You cant go to war without God. I dont know what is goin to happen when the next one comes. I surely dont. Cormac McCarthy
Plato quote: "The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable."
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. Plato
We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was. Bram Stoker