Bernard Berenson Quotes
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.Bernard Berenson
Quotes to Explore
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Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
R. C. Sproul -
That just sounds so funny, A-list. Really, I'm a mom, and that's how I'm going to be all my life.
Angelina Jolie -
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
Erykah Badu -
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
Vladimir Nabokov -
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
William Hazlitt -
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
William Shakespeare
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal -
The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane -
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.
George Washington -
England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
Mel B Spice Girls -
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
Jonathan Swift
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Josh Stewart -
Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.
Thomas Aquinas -
Millions of people are asking for accountability, for responsibility, for truth from their elected officials, truth about how Obamacare is failing the men and women of America.
Ted Cruz -
Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
J. California Cooper -
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Bernard Berenson