Art Quotes
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.Joseph Conrad
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.John Adams
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
Enough shovels of earth.......................... a mountain. Enough pails of water............................... a river.Chinese Prove
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.Jacques Martin Barzun
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King.Ramsey Clark
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow.Louise Driscoll
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.Hellen Kelle
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?Seneca
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.Winston Churchhill
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys. net
All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head.Suzanne Chapin
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.Benjamin H. Brewste
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.Bernard Avishai
The heart is wiser than the intellect.Unknown
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
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.Lao Tzu
Art is science made clear.Jean Cocteau
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.G. K. Chesterton
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.Unknown
I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.Author Unknown
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.Cicero
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.Mark Twain
