Art Quotes

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

Kelvin Throop

All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butle

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

Anonymous

The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Unknown

You can get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone.

Al Capone

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 slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding, from Four Quartets

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

General Omar Nelson Bradley

Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.

Jonathan Swift

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Richard Milhous Nixon

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27 13 - 14 Bible

Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann von Goethe

How can one conceive of a one - Party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheeses.

Charles De Gaulle

Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909? 14, p. 1)

Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.

Donald O. Rickte

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate 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?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Fernandez de Andrada

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog - Gone it, people like me.

Al Franken

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Aristotle

The holiest of holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - - The digitalis of failure.

Elbert Hubbard

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Johann von Goethe

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

John Burroughs

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Philo Judaeus

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

Ayn Rand, Anthem

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

Elizabeth II

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare