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"Forever is composed of now." »Emily Dickinson
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"Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses." »Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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"The superior man is satisfied and composed the mean man is always full of distress." »Confucius
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"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." »John Andrew Holmes
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"Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles." »John Tyndall
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"The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." »Mark Russell
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"The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage." »Mark Russell
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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together." »Anais Nin
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"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." »Ogden Nash
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"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often." »Samuel Butler
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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love." »Frank Moore Colby
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"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." »Walter Kerr
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"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." »Saul David Alinsky
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"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams
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"To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body." »Seneca
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"They eat the dainty food of gamous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach." »Luigi Barzini
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"I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'" »Igor Stravinsky
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"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold
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"There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you." »Elie Wiesel
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."" »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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