Art Quotes

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Marya Mannes

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Unknown

The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who seek them.

Ayn Rand, Anthem

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

Captain J. A. Hadfield

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...

William Wadsworth

Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it.

I Ching

Love changes darkness into light and makes the heart take a wingless flight.

Helen Steiner Rice

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackery

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

Barbara M. White

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.

German prove

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

Kitaro Nishida

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Kelle

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

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Shame is that intrinstic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.

LaDawnna Burnett (1975 -), Letters on Ethics

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

Lauren Bacall

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

May the sun always shine on your windowpane May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain May the hand of a friend always be near you May God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Blessing Irish

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

William Butler Yeats

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Jean Cocteau

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.

Robert S. McNamara, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Clive Staples Lewis

It sure does, Ben, it definitely does... this is definite... it specifically clearly, unequivocally says that Russia and other countries will enter into war and God will destroy Russia through earthquakes, volcanoes...

Pat Robertson, when asked the question "Does the Bible specifically tell us what is going to happen in the future", "700 Club" D

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig".

There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215

Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Henri F. Amiel

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph, on his surrender to Gen. Howard, October 5, 1877