#ives

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#ago #day #five #good #had

In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#being #case #composer #encouraged #even

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#boobs #carry #could #generous #gives

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#committed #forgives #god #heart #i

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#freedom #gives #laying #obvious #too

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#chance #democracy #dream #give #grateful

Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that. ↗

— David Chalmers

#because #controversial #data #like #more

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#comes #end #end of the world #episode #every

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#active #active life #commendation #duties #gives

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog