Flute Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs,

even though checkered by failure...

than to rank with those poor spirits

who neither enjoy nor suffer much,

because they live in a gray twilight

that knows not victory nor defeat.

An escalator can never break:

it can only become stairs.

Life is ten percent what happens to you

and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Nationalism is an infantile disease.

It is the measles of mankind.

Simplicity and clarity lead to good design.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for

honesty and truth and compassion

against injustice and lying and greed.

There comes a time

when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge

but can never prove how it got there.

Life is about expressing yourself,

no matter what others think.

One moment can change a day,

one day can change a life,

and one life can change the world.

Philosophically considered,

the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.

Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us,

all which Philosophy distinguishes as the 'Not Me,' that is,

both nature and art,

all other men and my own body,

must be ranked under this name,

Nature.

If you can't explain it simply,

you don't understand it well enough.

Education is not the filling of a pail,

but the lighting of a fire.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence.

Everything that surrounds us

everything that exists

proves that there are infinite laws behind it.

There can be no denying this fact.

It is mathematical in its precision.

I will say again that I have never,

and would never,

harm a child.

It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

A person's a person,

no matter how small.

I just want to be remembered as someone

who helped push culture forward.

I am a cage,

in search of a bird.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world

is also a confession of character.

Why are we,

as a nation so obsessed

with foreign things?

Is it a legacy of

our colonial years?

We want foreign television sets.

We want foreign shirts.

We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with

everything imported?

Suicide is man's way of telling God, You can't fire me I Quit.