Harps Quotes
107 quotes by 89 authors
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Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the…
— David
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Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the…
— Joanna Newsom
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
— Charles Dickens
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Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner:  a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline.  Here is a novel written with authentic authority…
— James Rollins
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Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a…
— John Grier Hibben
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Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get…
— Mark Slouka
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And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.
— Unknown Author
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I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
— Marsden Hartley
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The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly…
— Robertson Davies
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Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs, the tension that…
— Gautama Buddha
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Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.…
— Charles Lamb
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At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to…
— Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
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The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.
— Jacqueline Carey
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A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
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Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing…
— Aristotle
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If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.
— Unknown Author
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I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to…
— Themistocles
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Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a…
— Joel Stein
Who Wrote These Harps Quotes
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