Milieu Quotes

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To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art. — Theophile Gautier
I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein
Jesus was a revolutionary, who did not become an extremist, since he did not offer an ideology, but Himself. He was also a mystic, who… — Henri Nouwen
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding… — Eric Hoffer
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and… — Haniel Long
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful… — Steven Pinker
A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then… — Marcel Proust
I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and… — Keanu Reeves
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. — Tom Wolfe
She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed… — Charles J. Shields
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error… — Pascal Mercier
His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life. — Orson Scott Card
I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised. — Yotam Ottolenghi
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling,… — Paul Hawken
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. — Rebecca Miller
In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense. — Karl Liebknecht
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal… — Talcott Parsons
The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history,… — Daniel H. Wilson

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