Art Quotes
Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold.Zelda
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all - Disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.Lawrence Bixby
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.Rudolf Karl Bultmann
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.Charles Langbridge Morgan
Our view... is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.Sir Ronald A. Fishe
He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.Constance Naden
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.Pearl Buck
Silence is one great art of conversation.Anon.
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.G. K. Chesterton, Flying Inn (1914)
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
A good marriage winds up as a meeting of minds, which had better be pretty good to start with.Author Unknown
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down
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
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.Dave Barry
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
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.Dio Lewis
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.William Hazlitt
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.Mark Twain
All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.John Hay
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.Marshall McLuhan
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
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.W. J. Cameron
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.Henry Van Dyke
Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing in the troubles of five billion strangers.Robert A. Heinlein
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.Albert Einstein
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.John A. Locke
