Art Quotes
It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious - Minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious - Minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.Johann von Goethe
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.Unknown
I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.Orson Welles, 1966
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.Ronald Reagan
The Green Party is like a watermelon - Green on the outside and red on the inside.Rep. Bill Dannemeyer, R - Fullerton
Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.Blaise Pascal
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.Alan Marshall Beck
The politician is... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.Edward R. Murrow
A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.H. W. Dodds
The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.Ayn Rand, Anthem
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.Blaine Lee
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kakuzo
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.Thomas Mann
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.Christian Nestell
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good - Natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.Mark Twain
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.Zig Zigla
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.Charles Baudelaire
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow - Citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms.Tench Coxe
When you start to doubt yourself, the real world will eat you alive.Henry Rollins, From his song "Shine".
BesideCother art to be learned - - Not to see what is not.Maria Mitchell
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love.Walt Whitman
I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.Alan Stewart Paton
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.J. Krishnamurti
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Francis Bacon
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.Garth Henrichs
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - That is genius.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.Janet Long
I read part of it all the way through.Samuel Goldwyn
