Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Pregnancy is barbaric. … The husband's guilty waning of sexual desire, the woman's tears in fr... THE CHILDREN I beheld the trappings of upper-middle-class comfort. The big-screen TV and VCR. The crush of name-b... THE CHILDREN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST Are you threatening me, Ms. Sutherlin?” Sutherlin only smiled. “No. Of course not. All... TIFFANY REISZ If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN You must know that I am made of death, from head to foot, and it is a corpse who loves you and adore... GASTON LEROUX It's very typical of South African women. When you deal with a country with harsh landscapes, where ... THE ANGEL I look pretty grungy here ... I'm not concerned how I look. Here I was playing a character like I wa... THE ANGEL Is it too hot, Master? THE ANGEL Is it ethical to take a life to save a life?...It's never right to create and then kill one person t... THE ANGEL Enclosed is a check for the Rally for Relief. This is the $2,000 we received in 1997 from Ms. (Joan)... THE ANGEL We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes... DEMIAN BICHIR There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they're good, or bad, or anything really... LAURELL K. HAMILTON Hope is merely another face of desire. And desire is a motherfucker. CHRISTOPHER MOORE Goodness-real goodness- has its own sort of cruelty to it... CASSANDRA CLARE You are my heart,” he said. He’d said those very words to her that morning. But that morning, th... TIFFANY REISZ For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children. LAWANA BLACKWELL We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wick... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The fact that he does not tell me the truth all the time makes me not sure of his truth at certain t... LYDIA DAVIS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Sometimes, something of someone is liked too much not because it holds too much value or has a true ... ANUJ SOMANY The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How m... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who con... CHARBEL TADROS Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of li... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" TIFFANY REISZ It's strange because sometimes there is almost an outrage over what we'll play. Then the defenders s... DAVE MATTHEWS Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are arc... GERRY NICHOLLS They're known sometimes as a guardian angel to their fellow marines and to watch over and protect th... CRYSTAL MERILLAT He knows me better than anyone ever has. Than anyone ever will again. I would have stopped it if I c... AMY ENGEL A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sometimes, you can learn something completely mind-blowing in yoga and then totally forget about it ... ANNE CLENDENING Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their hear... PREITY ZINTA don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ... ZORA NEALE HURSTON It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou... GREGORY MAGUIRE 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall... JAMES C. DOBSON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t... RICK RIORDAN I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them ... MITCH ALBOM “Unsung Heroes are the men and women of our armed forces who defend us every day at the cost of fa... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as l... JODI PICOULT Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight. ROBERT BEATTY Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I... CHRISTIAN CAMARGO Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Sometimes, the only people that the parent of other murdered children can talk to are other parents ... HELEN HUBBARD Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am ... GASTON LEROUX What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c... DONNA TARTT She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY That you did something bad is not enough to make you a bad person SOTONYE ANGA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I know a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty than they have ever been before, because a lot of... ROBERT BLY You don't realize sometimes what putting the puck on net does. Sometimes defensemen turn their backs... SIDNEY CROSBY I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on ... RICK RIORDAN "Children are like sponges that absorb everything whether we want them to or not, too bad we can'... STEPHANI MCLELLAN It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES It does not matter what religion you are, so long as your conscience guides your words and actions. ... SUZY KASSEM At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Those are usually your better parts because you're not worried about the likeability, ... I think it... JOHN TRAVOLTA There is no worse discriminator than envy. No worse traitor than envy. Even those who are seemingly ... C. JOYBELL C. The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j... STEVEN MOFFAT Often they have to return to their other children, whom they've left in the bush. Sometimes they com... DR. KHADIJA ABDALLA Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And ev... OLIVER HERFORD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have add... G. STANLEY HALL
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