I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all… — Tilda Swinton Copy Share Image
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector,… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just feel like the country is guilty. I think we should be deeply ashamed for what we've done in Iraq, and… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share Image
It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet… — Arca Copy Share Image
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love – loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say - 'Let's lobotomize and censor parts of it… — Ben Huh Copy Share Image
When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things.… — Georges Pompidou Copy Share Image
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image