#ran

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#finds #good #his #into #music

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? ↗

— Mary Douglas

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#limits #oppose #prescribed #those #tyrants

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#band #be different #brand #different #different people

You say freak, I say unique. ↗

— Christian Baloga

#attraction #beautiful #ethereal #freak #imperfections

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world. ↗

— Rachel Dratch

#definitely #drama #i #into #looking

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#bad people #equal #good #good people #me

Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything he needed, just a few miles away on the island. The logical, rational answer was obvious. "Which is why the world stays messed up," Caine said under his breath. "People aren't rational." He took a few deep, steadying breaths, and prepared to die for power. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #michael-grant #power #beauty

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#does #give #imposes #power #privilege