Art Quotes
Partying is such sweet sorrow.Robert Byrne
No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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 most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success.... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.Nikola Tesla
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
Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.Ripley D. Saunders
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Rainer Maria Rilke
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.Henry Fielding
When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.Daniel Defoe
Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.Saul Bellow, O Magazine, September 2003
Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983
A gentle word is never lost... It cheers the heart when sorrow - Tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.Hastings
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.John Ruskin
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time.James Madison, The Federalist, Paper # 10
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.Karl Kraus
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.Plato
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.Les Brown
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that? s in it, And? you? ll be a Man, my son!Rudyard Kipling
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops
Give all to love obey thy heart.Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.Gilda Radne
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.Andrew Schneide
No national political party is going to nominate another right - wing candidate for a long time.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.Bernard of Chartres, 12th Century
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
BesideCother art to be learned - - Not to see what is not.Maria Mitchell
God is seated in the hearts of all.Bhagavad Gita
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two - Thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.Albert Einstein
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.Buddha
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
