Art Quotes

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

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

Richard Milhous Nixon

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.

Alvin Toffle

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

John 174 Bible

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Dan Rathe

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

Erich Fromm

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Franz Kafka

Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best - - - Or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.

David Fiedler, in _Byte_

Our ego is our silent partner - - Too often with a controlling interest.

Cullen Hightowe

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

Karen Lam

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

Mohammed Negui

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats

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

We only part to meet again.

John Gay

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

John Andrew Holmes

Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.

Saint Benedict

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Bertie Forbes

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Martin Barzun

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?? a world without a sun.

Thomas Campbell

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Reubin Askew

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

Josh Billings

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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".