There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“That my plans have lately gone somewhat awry is the sort of risk one must take if life is to be superb.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye. — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you. — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
“God understands everything. And even He made a mistake or two. Look at the size of avocado seeds - way too big.… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I… — Heloise Copy Share Image
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
