Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A poem can provide testimony. A poem can provide solace. It can provide a connection. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Religion all the world over offeres God as the solace and comfort for all in agony. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for… — Susan Straight Copy Share Image
When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch… — Marlene Dietrich Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace. — David Lowery Copy Share Image
