Bernard Berenson Quotes

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Bernard Berenson

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• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Ski
  • Descending
  • Himalayas

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Life
  • Details
  • Negotiation

• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Humble
  • Ride
  • Beginnings

• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
  • Pressure

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Single
  • Play
  • Football

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Perception
  • Act

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Taxes

• Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• If you go to Tiananmen Square, or go to any public area in China, you will hear my music at some point.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Music

• You know we were in the Argonne Forest twenty-eight days, and had some mighty hard fighting in there. A lot of our boys were killed off. Every company has to have so many sergeants. They needed a sergeant; and they jes' took me.

  

  Alvin C. York
  • Fighting
  • Forest
  • Sergeant

• These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew they were ruining us, we bought their goods. Thus I learned the art of the foreigners, the art of creating in the human heart restlessness, disquiet, hunger for new things, and these new desires became their best helpers.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Heart
  • Done

• Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment

  

  Andre Derain
  • Art
  • Intelligent
  • Enjoyment

• Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Art
  • Government
  • Rationally