Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
The snow itself is lonely or if you prefer self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases though not often.
Life is like music it must be composed by ear feeling and instinct not by rule.
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction accepted by our knowledge and judgment that it is so.
Of all the species of literary composition perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed which is wanting in general history.
Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work reality often forces us to choose love or work.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past the present and the future that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes or fisherman's octopus and shrimps fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men women an occasional animal and the common cold.
Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams from the unconscious and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.