Impotence Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater Download Open image “Loudness is impotence.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Impotence
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly. — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I don't believe in being loud. I find that stupid. Understated things work much better. — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Before thou callest a man hero or genius, investigate whether his exertion has features of indelibility; for all that is celestial, all genius, is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“Si quieres ser sabio, aprende a interrogar razonablemente, a escuchar con atención, a responder serenamente y a callar cuando no tengas nada que decir.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Wise people are able to give themselves gracefully to seemingly contradictory experiences, because they know that they belong to different seasons of life, all… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you're a star and you've spent most of… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
Lacking many of the essential implements, it irritated me to be reduced to impotence in the face of artistic projects to which I had… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way.… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
