Art Quotes
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.Woodrow Wilson
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.Daphne Rose Kingma
He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings.David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Be careful what you set your heart upon - For it will surely be yours.James Arthur Baldwin
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.Willa Sibert Cathe
More important than winning the election, is governing the nation. That is the test of a political party - - The acid, final test.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day.Unknown
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinner, November 1961, at which he performed publicly for the first t
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
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.Ernest Dimnet
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.Robert Frost
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.Tod Johnson
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment - - This day - - Is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day - - Each moment of this day - - A heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.Dan Custe
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.Cynthia Heimel
Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare.Lewis Ward
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.Percy Wynham Lewis
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.Bertrand Russell
With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.William Lloyd Garrison
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.W. H. Auden
Two - Thirds of the earth is covered by water. The other third is covered by Garry Maddox.Ralph Kine
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.Sir Arthur Keith
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him.Dutch Prove
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.Harry S Truman
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.Thomas Jefferson
