Wilfrid Sheed Quotes
Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.Wilfrid Sheed
Quotes to Explore
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel -
I beat myself up the whole time because I'm striving for something I'll basically never achieve. I portray this image of confidence, of arrogance, and it's not really me. I'm never satisfied, and I'm never content. It means I'm a bit of a mess some of the time.
Victoria Pendleton -
Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
Dana Perino -
There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
Raf Simons -
I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
J. I. Packer
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I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
Craig Newmark -
I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.
David LaChapelle -
Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
William Cowper -
What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Mahatma Gandhi -
If he's convicted, ... once all the appeals have been exhausted, the rules do allow for him to be executed within 30 days of that.
Lara Logan
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Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.
Susumu Tonegawa -
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller -
It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.
Francis Chan -
Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.
Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise -
In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas