Edith Wharton Quotes
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
Quotes to Explore
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani
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I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
Abigail Washburn
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
Ed Koch
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
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Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
Andy Grammer
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
John Charles Polanyi
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Now in the past, in your distant past, when I spoke through others, or portions of my entity did so, then such personal connections also existed with those through whom we communicated.
Jane Roberts
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A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
Wayne Thiebaud
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
Edith Wharton
