Washington Allston Quotes
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
Oscar Wilde
...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
Randall Jarrell
We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
Bertrand Russell
This is George Bush’s accountability moment.
Cindy Sheehan
I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.
Jennifer Hyman
Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.
Brian Greene
The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.
Thomas Sowell
The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde
Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
Banana Yoshimoto
You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.
Will Barnet
Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
Mark Poster
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
