Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The creditors are proving impossible to deal with and short of a sudden appearance on the scene of wealthy art patrons, we… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
I feel like the traditional patron system meant that you would kiss the ass of one rich person and then hide all… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
“If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Let's take Adam Smith, the patron-saint of capitalism, what did he think? He thought the main human instinct was sympathy. In fact,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Through the media, we've establishes this standard of what every human being should look up to: somebody who always looks right; who… — Fiona Apple Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make… — Clayton James Cubitt Copy Share Image
The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint… — Ciaran Hinds Copy Share Image
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
There are self-made millionaires - their aspiration is first to make money. But the once that goal is achieved, they have to… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire… — Plautus Copy Share Image
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth Copy Share Image
As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find a redeeming feature to Palpatine, and the only one I've got so far is that he's clearly… — Ian McDiarmid Copy Share Image
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint. — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone Copy Share Image
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