Art Quotes
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man - Made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.Nelson Mandela
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.Charles Williams
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - It shall never be again.Rudyard Kipling
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.Leo C. Rosten
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle - Aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.I. F. Stone
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world.Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...William Shakespeare
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.Miguel de Cervantes
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.Turkish Prove
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.Henry Anatole Grunwald
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.Anna Garlin Spence
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.Phyllis Mcginley
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.Jonathan Swift
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.J. Russel Lynes
I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.Marquis de Sade
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step.Unknown
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.Romare Beardon
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.The Land Before Time
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.Nora Roberts
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.Dwight D. Morrow
Jealousy is the art of injuring ourselves more than others.Alexandre Dumas
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...Learned Hand
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.Sir Winston Churchill
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
