Chamber Quotes - Page 6

• I advised Chambers, and would advise every young man beginning to compose, to do it as fast as he can, to get a habit of having his mind to start promptly; it is so much more difficult to improve in speed than in accuracy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Men, Mind

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.343

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• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jesus, Air, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Names, People, Atheism

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• As long as His Majesty is sick, I will move my bed to his chambers, the better to care for him.

  Catherine Parr

  Moving, Long, Sick

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• In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naïve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.

  Arthur Koestler

  Errors, Political, Single Life

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Risk, Details

  "The Journal of Historical Review", 2002.

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither.

  John Donne

  Angel, Whining, Invites

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 12 December 1626 'At the Funeral of Sir William Cokayne'

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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Science, Men

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• The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

  Ambrose

  Children, Abortion, Fetus

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• When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

  John A. Macdonald

  Summer, Pot, Fortune

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• I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Destiny, Men, Thinking

  "Law and the Court". Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, library.law.harvard.edu. February 15, 1913.

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• The 9th chamber, leave you trapped inside my hallway
  You try to flee but you got smoked up by the doorway (blaow! blaow! blaow!)
  No question, I send your ass back, right to the essence
  Your whole frame is smothered in dirt, now how you restin

  Ghostface Killah

  Rap, Essence, Trying

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• To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes forth from His royal chambers, accompanied with blessing, are we to hold ourselves at leisure that we may yield Him worship and offer Him service?

  David McIntyre

  Kings, Blessing, Yield

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• There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Air, Together

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “Myths to Live By”, p.146, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Oft in the silence of the night,
  When the lonely moon rides high,
  When wintry winds are whistling,
  And we hear the owl's shrill cry,
  In the quiet, dusky chamber,
  By the flickering firelight,
  Rising up between two sleepers,
  Comes a spirit all in white.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Louisa May Alcott (2001). “My Little Friend: And Other Stories”

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  War, Use, Silver

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• They tried their best to find a place where I was isolated. But all the resources of a superpower cannot isolate the man who hears a voice of freedom, a voice I heard from the very chamber of my soul.

  Natan Sharansky

  Men, Voice, Soul

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• The main problem with being president is the constant sense that you are inside a glass bowl for everyone to see, or in a kind of barometric chamber with an artificial atmosphere where you must stay all the time.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Glasses, Atmosphere, President

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Simple, Blood

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• I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.

  Lily Allen

  School, Voice, Taught

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Thinking, Mind, Plot

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• I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

  S. J. Perelman

  Music, Symphony, Quartets

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• Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies throughout the world. Under it, criticism of government is viewed as defamation and punished as a crime.

  Harry Kalven

  Stars, Government, Criticism

  Harry Kalven (1989). “A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America”, HarperCollins

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• As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

  Anthony Burgess

  God, Glasses, World

  Anthony Burgess (1656). “CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved”, p.159

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