Quote by Iain Pears Download Open image ““The rolling sound of a good hymn badly sung is particularly evocative.”” — Iain Pears ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of… — Sven Anders Hedin Copy Share Image
“Rejoice in the LORD , O you righteous! For praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the Lord . . . make melody to… — Robert J. Morgan Copy Share Image
“I sing without knowing what my song means, and whether the listening world is amazed or wounded.” — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
“Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell. And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir for years.… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
“If life is a song, and God is the divine conductor, I must consider these trials and troubles as the harmony of my song,… — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
“The Lord your God is with you. He is mighty to save. He takes great delight in you. He will quiet you with His… — Zephaniah 3:17 Copy Share Image
“Odd, don't you think? I have seen war, and invasions and riots. I have heard of massacres and brutalities beyond imagining, and I have… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“The next day was a dream of such perfection that I have never approached the like again. It was, of course, all illusion, but… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all. — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Aunt Gertie could not tell the difference between 1928 and now. Uncle Joseph was dead and alive. In other words, she grasped the essential… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“I cannot remember a single painting, although I do remember trying hard to be deeply impressed by them at the time.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“It was, for the time being, an empty threat, and he must have sensed it also, for he laughed easily and with contempt. “You… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
