Art Quotes
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.Kahlil Gibran
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.Omar Bradley, Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break.William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.Robert W. Sarnoff
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.Marcus Garvey
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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
The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline.George J. Seidel
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
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.Frank Moore Colby
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.Kahlil Gibran
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.George Bernard Shaw
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.George Eliot
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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
The cowards never start and the weak die along the way.Kit Carson
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
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou
The mountains, I become a part of it... The morning mists, the clouds, the gathering waters, I become a part of it.Navajo Chant
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - And both commonly succeed, and are right.H. L. Mencken
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.Samuel Johnson, Taxation No Tyranny
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.Voltaire
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.Al Capp
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.C. S. Lewis
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.Albert Einstein
He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.Siddha Nagarjuna
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.David Fiedler, in _Byte_
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they.George Carlin
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.George Jean Nathan
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.Ecclesiastes
The covers of this book are too far apart.Ambrose Bierce
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.Harry S Truman
