Albert C. Barnes Quotes

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

Albert C. Barnes

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• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Quality
  • Hair

• If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Being
  • Year
  • Very

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Women
  • Love

• Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Important
  • Soul
  • Energy

• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • House
  • Understanding

• Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Actions
  • Seed

• I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me - who I write about too - they get it. It's my creative outlet, my therapy.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If somebody says, "He sounds just like Michael Jackson," well there's already a Michael Jackson. You don't want to sound like Michael Jackson; you want to sound like yourself. The only way you're ever going to get anywhere, and stay there, is by being your own self.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Way
  • Sound
  • Michael Jackson

• The lean and mean fighting machines, we're beyond that.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Fighting
  • Machines

• It's not in the mind of anyone at this point in time, the use of military action, no. I hope very much that ... we will find a peaceful solution, a diplomatic solution.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Military Action

• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  

  John Bevere
  • Giving
  • Grace
  • Shame

• The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hope
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Lose

• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Humanity
  • Interest
  • Pressure

• Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

  

  Albert C. Barnes
  • Interest
  • Paintings
  • Studying