Chamber Quotes · Page 2

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

— John Donne

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

— John F. Kennedy

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

— Catherine Parr

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

— Christo

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

— Tod Machover

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

— Oswald Chambers

The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.

— Francis Quarles

I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups.

— David Del Tredici

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

— Gustav Mahler

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people…

— Tony Abbott

They [Federalist European Politicians] divide their time between court room, prison and debating chamber - giving a whole new meaning to the…

— Margaret Thatcher

I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the…

— Wu Han

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.

— James L. Brooks

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy…

— Amos Oz

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to…

— Naomi Wolf

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to…

— Condoleezza Rice

I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side…

— Raekwon

The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to…

— Winston Churchill

We who are privileged to be in these chambers today can view the challenges we face as opportunities, not as reasons for…

— Tom McCall

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut…

— George Orwell

To what profit is it that we dwell in Jerusalem, if we do not see the King's face? And when He comes…

— David McIntyre

I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life…

— Stephen Covey

The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth…

— Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart.…

— Michael Jackson

Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000…

— David Duke

For three decades, Senator Arlen Specter served the people of Pennsylvania with independence, toughness, determination and an unflinching devotion to the best…

— Nancy Pelosi

[Chamber of Reflection off of Salad Days]I think it's probably that one. There's no guitar on that song, I've never recorded a…

— Mac DeMarco

It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. If the guns are taken out of the…

— Huey Newton

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,…

— Bertrand Russell

Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

— Margaret Heffernan

In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor.

— Edward Young

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.

— James Cronin

The sensory deprivation chamber has been the most important tool that I've ever used for developing my mind

— Joe Rogan

Think of it! A second chamber selected by the Whips. A seraglio of eunuchs.

— Michael Foot

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

— Edgar Allan Poe

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

— Augustine Birrell

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton