Arthur Dove Quotes
We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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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.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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All of us grow.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
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If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.
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Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
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We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.
