#ch

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cheerful #dignity #effect #either #epochs

I want to own an NFL franchise. I understand the business of football. ↗

— Jon Bon Jovi

#football #franchise #i #nfl #own

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#laughs #man #more #nothing #shows

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ask #birds #cherries #children #how

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#carrying #character #feel #great #little

Life is the childhood of our immortality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#immortality #life #our

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#everywhere #flash #joy #life #our

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#embrace #enhancement #enlightenment #less #light

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't. ↗

— Thomas Gold

#certainly #cold #cold war #communication #could

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it. ↗

— Arthur Goldberg

#brooding #compelled #concept #constitution #devotion