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“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”

Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) Chef and food writer

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.”

Harlan Coben book Missing You

Source: Missing You

“San Francisco has always been a dream. And the Golden Gate Bridge and Hollywood, I’d love to see them too.”

Hanoi Hannah (1931–2016) Vietnamese radio personality

As quoted in "‘Hanoi Hannah’ Fondly Remembers Her Role" in Los Angeles Times (4 April 1998) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-apr-04-mn-35911-story.html <br class="br">Post war

“Isn't it clear that the war makers are gambling with your lives, while pocketing huge profits?”

Hanoi Hannah (1931–2016) Vietnamese radio personality

At a 1967 broadcast directed to U.S. troops, as quoted in "'Hanoi Hannah,' Whose Broadcasts Taunted And Entertained American GIs, Dies" in NPR (6 October 2016) https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/05/496662815/hanoi-hannah-whose-broadcasts-taunted-and-entertained-american-gis-dies-at-87 <br class="br">During Vietnam War

“My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!”

Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer

Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.

“Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Joseph Machlis, The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (1963) Page 107.

“Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

“Wasting time is one of the worst faults of the world. Life is so short, every moment is so precious and yet, we live as if life will never end.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Alan Walker, Franz Liszt : The Virtuoso Years, 1811-1847 (1987) Page 117.

“Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Arthur Friedheim and Alexander Siloti, Remembering Franz Liszt (1961) p. 138.

“I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

As quoted in Walker, 1997.

“The day will come when all nations amidst which the Jews are dwelling will have to raise the question of their wholesale expulsion, a question which will be one of life or death, good health or chronic disease, peaceful existence or perpetual social fever.”

Franz Liszt (1811–1886) Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist

Source: As quoted in Col. E. N. Sanctuary’s Are These Things So?, p. 278.

“Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

Source: Why Revival Tarries

“My goal is GOD HIMSELF. Not joy, not peace, not even blessing but HIMSELF… my GOD.”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

“Friendship between those of the same sex attains an erotic tone, which comes into consciousness, and which also occasionally increases to the point of desire. Here, for older medicine, was where pathology began, for older jurisprudence, where criminality began, without providing any reason for either.”

Hans Blüher (1888–1955) German journalist and writer

Source: The German Wandervogel Movement as Erotic Phenomenon: A Contribution to the Knowledge of Sexual Inversion (1914), p. 35.

“The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.”

Edwin Grant Conklin (1863–1952) American biologist and zoologist

Quoted in: Cliffe Knechtle (1986) Give Me an Answer, p. 70

“There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious out-look; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows!”

Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist

Source: Life Thoughts (1858), p. 16

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”

Julio Cortázar book Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”

Abraham Isaac Kook book Orot

Orot Hatchiah 33.
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