It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explainin...
The following Discourse [on art, by Sir Joshua Reynolds] is particularly Interesting to Blockheads as it endeavours to prove that There is No such thing as Inspiration & that any Man of a plain Unders...
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones.
The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!
(There are so many If's like Why's, why there, if there... but why?? Look again I say this word!)Why do we ask questions which we aren't interested in real like "How are you", you answer, then the oth...
The only way we can divorce fears in our lives is by marrying our desires.
We are diamonds in the roughThrough the thrust and toil, we come out strongWe are the breath of the earth,Our wombs tell of humanity's birthWe are seeds splattered on putrid soilsStill we sprout, thro...
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.
Man is the only god of confusion. In a political sense the liberal man is like one shouting over the voice of God thus making it difficult to hear God; the conservative man is like one standing in the...
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.
I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I hav...
Some things are too good to be true and truly are good and true.
I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important lif...
But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.
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