Art Quotes
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.T. S. Eliot
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.Bertrand Russell
Christmas gift suggestions To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.Oren Arnold
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand.Swami Sivanada
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision.Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.Charles H. Mayo
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.William James
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.David Fiedler, in _Byte_
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.Francis Bacon
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.Harold Loukes
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.Mary Ellen Kelly
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.Sir Winston Churchill
The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.Jean - Francois Rameau
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Kahlil Gibran
We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.T. S. Eliot
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.John Bunyan
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching.Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.Blaise Pascal
A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.Lao Tzu
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.F. Scott Fitzgerald
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.Chinese Prove
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
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.Miguel de Cervantes
Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...David Gridley, Indiantown
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.Edgar Albert Guest
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.Rudyard Kipling
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.Franklin P. Adams
