Art Quotes
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.Saadi
If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.James Abram Garfield
No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart.Eric Hoffe
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.Plato
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".
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.Frederick Buechne
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.Barbara de Angelis
A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.John Andrew Holmes
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.Benjamin Disraeli
People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.James Randi
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.Robert Collie
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.Will Rogers
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.Stephen Hawking
And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height.Koran
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.Woodrow Wilson
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.Plato, The Republic
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.Eugene Delacroix
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.Rollo May
Political language - And with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - Is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell, 1946
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.Ulysses S. Grant
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!Henry David Thoreau
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.Aeschylus
Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.John Lyly
