“Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention… — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Democrats do have a historic race going. Hillary Clinton vs. Barack Obama. Normally, when you see a black man or a woman… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence, while the sea destroys its perpetual statues, collapses its towers of wild speed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Only drunks stare at statues … I never liked the statues keeping vigil, primarily because they were too close to life.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
And it's not just black people. That's the other thing about this issue, it's conflated with just black and white and it's… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Pagan model of religion because, in the Pagan model, there were lots and lots of Gods and Goddesses. They were all… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
You will find a blissfulness which contains in it sadness also, because that sadness gives it depth. Watch Buddha's statue - blissful,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps or old snuff-boxes, even to pictures or… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“But the statue attracted a middle-aged, brown-haired, overweight White guy. Clearly drunk, he climbed onto the tiny stage and started fondling Buddha… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or… — Buckethead Copy Share Image
Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year,… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image