Armistice Quote by Bernard DeVoto Download Open image “Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.” — Bernard DeVoto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Armistice Art Art is Fate Term
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each work of art is a collection of signs invented during the picture's execution to suit the needs of their position. Taken out of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us. — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it. — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification.… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with Marshal Badoglio. We agree that Italy must be saved from the abyss toward which Fascism is driving her. If… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
“Ceasefire only postpones war, disarmament instills peace. Armistice empowers armament, demilitarization plants peace.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are to persist… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
