Lotte Lehmann Quotes

“You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.Lotte Lehmann”

“The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.”

“One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.”

“A bookshelf is a biography written by others.”

“People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.”

“Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.”

“THE FEAR OF ITThey say that resistanceto something inevitable makes it seem worse than it is. Maybe the trickis to give in,try to increase the worry, bend like a tree in the storm, give pain its due,find the center of it and look at it plainly, turn it carefullyin the palm of your hand,and realize it can own only so much of you,unless you give it more.It is a balloonthat can get only so big.Anything more is just the fear of it.”

“In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year.”

“Through the anger came something I recognized”

“I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.”