George Saintsbury Quotes
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This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.
Fernand Leger -
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
Rabih Alameddine -
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Yahoo Serious -
Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
Eberhard Arnold -
I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
Laini Taylor -
All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
Lou Holtz
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We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.
Kathy Mattea -
I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
Jeff Long -
Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use — that is our good use — of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?
Socrates -
Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.
Vladimir Putin -
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. We labor unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence and neglect the real.
Blaise Pascal
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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.
William Butler Yeats -
I want nothing but death.
Jane Austen -
Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
Simon Sinek -
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.
Walter de La Mare -
For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner -
The anthology format is completely normal to me. That's just how TV works in my experience.
Noah Hawley