#cho

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do. ↗

— Richard Price

#arts #because #choice #does #feel

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level. ↗

— Rita Dove

#choice #full #generous #level #really

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us. ↗

— Herbert Prochnow

#course #decision #drift #endless #events

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life. ↗

— Adelaide Anne Procter

#discordant #ease #echo #fingers #harmonious

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar. ↗

— William Drummond

#scholar #sharpens

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#any #clearly #conspicuously #displaying #prohibited

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me. ↗

— Lou Reed

#been #big #big thing #chord #how

If you want someone to show up and help you if something bad happens, you'd better tell someone where you're going. And of course I wanted someone to know - but I'd made a choice and it was a choice I was going to have to live with. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#better #choice #course #going #happens

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization. ↗

— Otto Rank

#civilization #come #creativity #foundation #her

But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#consider #education #equally #fewer #implications