Paul Gauguin Quotes

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Paul Gauguin

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• I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Why
  • Son
  • Regret

• Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• I'm the kind of person that if I try to throw it hard, it doesn't come out as good. So my whole thought process is to stay smooth, stay on top of the ball, and just get my hand out in front.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Thought

• The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Gun
  • Times

• No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Management

• I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Good
  • Year
  • Crime

• Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Political

• 'I’m from out of town,' he said breezily. This was true. He’d never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

  

  Iain Banks
  • True
  • Light

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Money
  • Tea

• Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Soul
  • Brain

• If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Money
  • Band
  • Rock

• I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

  Charles B. Rangel

• The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran

• The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

  

  Katharine Tynan
  • Tears
  • Jest

• Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • May
  • Truth
  • Respect

• As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about...is suffering, affliction.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Success
  • Suffering

• Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Desire

• Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Beautiful
  • Color
  • Realizing