Quotes About Age

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Age

Quotations & Citations:

I am not young enough to know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

~ Doug Larson

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

~ Leroy “Satchel” Paige

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
~ C.S. Lewis

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

~ Samuel Ullman

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

~ Douglas MacArthur

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
~ Herbert Hoover

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

~ Chili Davis

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.

~ Nikita Ivanovich Panin

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~ H.L. Mencken

The years teach much which the days never knew.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
~ Edgar Allan Poe

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

~ George Bernard Shaw

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

~ John Mortimer

Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.

~ Charles Dickens

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

~ Robert Southey, The Doctor

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

~ John Barrymore

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

Just remember, when you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles M. Schulz

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

~ Satchel Paige

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
~ Virginia Woolf

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

~ Bob Hope

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
~ George Burns

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

~ Caryn Leschen

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
~ Sophia Loren

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

~ Victor Hugo

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
~ Sherman Alexie

Everyone is the age of their heart.

~ Guatemalan Proverb

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

~ Dorothy Fulheim

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
~ Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

~ Tom Stoppard

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
~ Madeleine L’Engle

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.

~ Judith Regan

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
~ Milan Kundera

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

~ Mark Twain

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.

~ Brigitte Bardot

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
~ Garrison Keillor

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

~ Robert Browning

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
~ Gabriel García Márquez

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

~ Herbert Asquith

It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
~ Andy Rooney

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.
~ Hayao Miyazaki

The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
~ Edmund Waller

His hair isn’t turning gray—it’s turning silver, and it’s going up in value. Aging is the best hedge against an inflationary fiat currency.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.
~ Doris Lessing

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Mark Twain

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

~ Martin Buxbaum

Old age ain’t no place for sissies.
~ Bette Davis

I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

~ T.S. Eliot

Thirty–the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

~ Henry David Thoreau

By the time you’re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

~ Henri Amiel

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

~ Saint Aurelius Augustine

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
~ Karl Lagerfeld

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

~ Charles Dickens

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
~ Oscar Wilde

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

~ Charles Lamb

I’m gonna enjoy being old I think I’ll be awesome at it.
~ Craig Ferguson

Life is one long process of getting tired.

~ Samuel Butler

Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
~ Jessica Simpson

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

~ Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.
~ Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

~ John M. Wagner

When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again.
~ Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

~ Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
~ George Sand

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

~ Henry David Thoreau

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

~ Ogden Nash

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
~ Lyman Bryson

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

~ Truman Capote

I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Prose and Poetry

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

~ Eddie Murphy

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.
~ Alex Shakar

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

~ Jean Rostand

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping.
~ Cindy Crawford

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.

~ Liz Smith

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
~ Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

~ Emily Dickinson

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
~ Michael Pritchard

Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.

~ Daniel Defoe

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Age is a prison from which we cannot escape
but only by death,
into another world.
~ Morrow Bourne

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.
~ Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
~ William Butler Yeats

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
~ Charles Frazier

You know you’re getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.

~ Arnold Palmer

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
~ David Gemmell

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.
~ Neil Gaiman

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

~ Jennifer Yane

I am older than your age and younger than your body.
~ Santosh Kalwar

Quotes About Sports

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Sports

Quotations & Citations:

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
~ Babe Ruth

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

~ Steve Garvey

Winning isn’t everything–but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

~ John Madden

The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
~ John Bingham

I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.” Parents have to take better control.

~ Charles Barkley

It ain’t over ’til it’s over.
~ Yogi Berra

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.

~ Vince Lombardi

Many people say I’m the best women’s soccer player in the world. I don’t think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
~ Mia Hamm

With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions.

~ Pete Rose

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

~ Jack Handey

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
~ Rodney Dangerfield

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

~ Jason Love

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~ William Arthur Ward

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good.

~ Abe Lemmons

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
~ Tiger Woods

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I’m only six feet tall, so I couldn’t play basketball. I’m only 190 pounds, so I couldn’t play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn’t be a referee.

~ Jay Leno

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
~ Wayne Gretzky

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

~ Sylvester Stallone

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
~ Babe Ruth

Professional wrestling’s most mysterious hold is on its audience.

~ Luke Neely

Football is like life – it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.

~ Nick Seitz

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

~ Jerry Barber

The thing about football – the important thing about football – is that it is not just about football.
~ Terry Pratchett

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy — and a little more patient.

~ Bo Jackson

You don’t just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again.
~ Mia Hamm

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.

~ Sam Snead

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.
~ Hank Aaron

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

~ Al McGuire

Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.
~ Jessica Park

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?

~ Vince Lombardi

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what’s left.
~ Yogi Berra

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

~ Emil Zatopek

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
~ Jim Bouton

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

~ Ron Bolton

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
~ Knute Rockne

If you screw things up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass.

~ Randall “Tex” Cobb

I like cup holders—in cars, as well as in jockstraps. I would have played football, but the only helmet I had belonged to a bicycle that coach said was illegal on the field.
~ Jarod Kintz, Xazaqazax

I was called “Rembrandt” Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

~ Bob Hope

I’m the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
~ Bret Hart

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you’re in a slump. If you lose at the end, you’re choking.

~ Gene Mauch

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
~ Gordie Howe

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing –
The one is winning, and the other losing.
~ Lord Byron

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
~ Billie Jean King

All sports are games of inches.

~ Dick Ritger

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
~ Dan Gable

Sports strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

~ Rita Mae Brown

If you gone come in second, you’re just the first loser!
~ Tiger Woods

Cricket is baseball on valium.

~ Robin Williams

I realize I’m black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody’s wish.
~ Michael Jordan

Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.

~ Vince McKewin

The strong one doesn’t win, the one that wins is strong.
~ Franz Beckenbauer

Sports is a preserver of health.

~ Hippocrates

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
~ Mike Singletary

The bowling alley is the poor man’s country club.

~ Sanford Hansell

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.
~ Tom Landry

There’s more to boxing than hitting. There’s not getting hit, for instance.

~ George Foreman

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
~ Phil Jackson

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start — but they can’t when they finish.

~ Martin H. Fischer

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
~ Jesse Owens

Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.

~ Abe Lemons

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quotes About Blessings

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Blessings

Quotations & Citations:

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You

A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.
~ Irish Blessing

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
~ C.S. Lewis

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~ Irish Blessing

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

May God grant you many years to live,
For sure He must be knowing
The earth has angels all too few
And Heaven is overflowing.
~ Irish Blessing

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert

May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.

~ Irish Blessing

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine

May those that love us, love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.
~ Irish Blessing

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.

~ Maya Angelou

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.
~ Irish Blessing

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

May your thoughts be as glad as the shamrocks
May your heart be as light as a song
May each day bring you bright
Happy hours that stay with you all the year long.
~ Irish Blessing

I count as blessings things I could have benefited from, even if I neglected to utilize them. A gift is still a gift, even if left wrapped and unopened.
~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
~ Irish Blessing

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.
~ Thomas Goodwin

May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~ Irish Blessing

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
~ William Arthur Ward

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
~ Irish Blessing

You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life.
~ Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

May you live as long as you want,
And never want as long as you live.
~ Irish Blessing

Family, friends and relationships are the blessings of the God. They are the best way to access God.
~ Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that’s always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
~ Irish Blessing

Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician’s karmic calamity.
~ T.F. Hodge

Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we fail to see, appreciate, and use what we do have!
~ Jeff Dixon

Blessings sometimes show up in unrecognizable disguises.
~ Janette Oke

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
~ Eric Hoffer

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
~ Mother Teresa

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love!
~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
~ Lydia Maria Francis Child

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.
~ Ezra Taft Benson

Money can’t buy no blessins.
~ Ron Hall, Same Kind of Different as Me

Quotes About Fear

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Fear

Quotations & Citations:

I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
~ Woody Allen

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

~ Mary Manin Morrissey

Do one thing every day that scares you.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

~ Marie Curie

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

~ Bill Cosby

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
~ John Lennon

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.

~ Usman B. Asif

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Bran thought about it. Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear — fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

~ Henry Louis Mencken

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

~ George S. Patton

Fear cuts deeper than swords,
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

~ Andre Gide

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

~ Arnold Glasow

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
~ C. JoyBell C.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

~ Henry H. Tweedy

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
~ Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon

It is better to know what to fear than to say “no fear.”

~ Tim Fargo

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Fear is the highest fence.

~ Dudley Nichols

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

~ James Hastings

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
~ Jim Morrison

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

~ Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
~ Salvador Dalí

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

~ Ruth Gendler

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
~ Plato

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

~ Shirley Maclaine

Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Bertrand Russell

Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

~ Brendan Francis

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
~ Nelson Mandela

Fear cannot take what you do not give it.

~ Christopher Coan

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
~ Jarod Kintz

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
~ Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

~ Joseph Campbell

Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

~ Aeschylus

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
~ Taylor Swift

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

~ Samuel Butler

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

~ Hāfez

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
~ Andrew Solomon

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

~ German Proverb

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

~ Lloyd Douglas

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Children of Húrin

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

~ Seneca

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

~ Rosa Parks

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

A cat bitten once by a snake dreads even rope.

~ Arab Proverb

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida

Don’t fear, just live right.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

~ Maurice Freehill

Without fear there cannot be courage.
~ Christopher Paolini

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

~ Sophie Tunnell

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.
~ Stephen Richards

He who fears something gives it power over him.

~ Moorish Proverb

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

~ French Proverb

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
~ Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

~ Mark Twain

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
~ Aristotle

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

~ Donald Dowes

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
~ Lemony Snicket

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is poison to fear.
~ George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

To lead is difficult when you’re a follower of fear.

~ T.A. Sachs

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.
~ Francis Chan

Quotes About Dogs

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Dogs

Quotations & Citations:

Happiness is a warm puppy.
~ Charles M. Schulz

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

~ Ben Williams

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
~ Marilyn Monroe

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
~ Mark Twain

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.
~ Milan Kundera

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

~ Agnes Repplier

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.
~ Mark Twain

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
~ Josh Billings

Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.

~ Corey Ford

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
~ Will Rogers

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

~ Max Eastman

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
~ Mark Twain

A dog is not “almost human” and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

~ John Holmes

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
~ Jack London

If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.

~ Will Rogers

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
~ Johnny Depp

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

~ Roger Caras

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
~ Charles M. Schulz

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
~ Dean Koontz, False Memory

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

~ O.A. Battista

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

~ Edward Hoagland

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
~ Andy Rooney

The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The more boys I meet the more I love my dog.
~ Carrie Underwood

The greatest love is a mother’s; then a dog’s; then a sweetheart’s.

~ Polish Proverb

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
~ Roger A. Caras

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

~ Christopher Morley

Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
~ Roger A. Caras

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater… suggest that he wear a tail.

~ Fran Lebowitz

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
~ Roger A. Caras

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.

~ Gene Hill

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
~ Cesar Millan

The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.

~ Portuguese Proverb

If you can look at a dog and not feel vicarious excitement and affection, you must be a cat.

~ Carrie Latet

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.

~ Margo Kaufman

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.
~ Orhan Pamuk

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

~ Rita Rudner

The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
~ Martin Luther

The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
~ Samuel Butler

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.
~ Jim Butcher

Quotes About Guns and Gun Control

Gun Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Guns and Gun Control

Quotations & Citations:

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

Violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
~ Louis L’Amour, The Daybreakers

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.
~ George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
~ Mao Tse Tung

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.
~ James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

My view of guns is simple. I hate guns and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned.
~ Deborah Prothrow-Stith (Dean of Harvard School of Public Health)

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…. The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
~ Patrick Henry

I don’t care if you want to hunt, I don’t care if you think it’s your right. I say ‘Sorry.’ it’s 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.
~ Rosie O’Donnell

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.
~ Joseph Story

I bought original, real guns of the type we used in ‘Tomb Raider’ for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one. And yes, I’d be able to use it if I had to … If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I’ve no problem shooting them.
~ Angelina Jolie

I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
~ Stephen King

America is a country founded on guns. It’s in our DNA. It’s very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I don’t feel safe, I don’t feel the house is completely safe, if I don’t have one hidden somewhere. That’s my thinking, right or wrong.
~ Brad Pitt

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
~ Clint Eastwood

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

We would just go out and line up a bunch of cans and shoot with rifles, handguns and at times, submachine guns… When I was a kid it was a controlled atmosphere, we weren’t shooting at humans… we were shooting at cans and bottles mostly. I will most certainly take my kids out for target practice.
~ Johnny Depp

The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.
~ James Earl Jones

It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk

The Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights is my Concealed Weapons Permit, period.
~ Ted Nugent

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
~ Ted Nugent

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.
~ George Washington

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
~ Thomas Jefferson

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
~ Sigmund Freud

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.
~ Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.
~ John Adams

An armed society is a polite society.
~ Robert Heinlein

It’s very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It’s easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.
~ Fred Rogers

Remember the first rule of gunfighting … have a gun.
~ Jeff Cooper

There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous men.
~ Robert A. Heinlein

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Charlton Heston

No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.
~ James Burgh

But if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you … it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
~ Dalai Lama

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard, don’t see the danger in the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz

The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
~ Samuel Adams

A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
~ Larry Elder

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.
~ Mother Teresa

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.
~ James Madison

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
~ G. K. Chesterton

I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
~ Alan Alda

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.
~ John Adams

The right to defend one’s home and one’s person when attacked has been guaranteed through the ages by common law.
~ Martin Luther King

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.
~ Noah Webster

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
~ George Orwell

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
~ Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops.
~ Noah Webster

It’s better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.
~ Christian Slater

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you’re on.
~ Alfred Hitchcock

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.
~ James Madison

Now they’re tryin’ to take my guns away
And that would be just fine
If you take ‘em away from the criminals first
I’d gladly give you mine
~ Charlie Daniels Band, A Few More Rednecks

You don’t spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
~ Helen Thomas

I have always been fascinated with guns. I grew up in America so granted, it is part of our heritage and it is written into the laws of how this country is run.
~ Joe Perry, Aerosmith

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.
~ James Madison

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government – and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
~ Edward Abbey

Quotes About Art

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Art

Quotations & Citations:

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

~ Pablo Picasso

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

~ John Ruskin

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Art is Man’s nature. Nature is God’s art.

~ James Bailey

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

~ Marie Laurencin

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
~ Pablo Picasso

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

~ G.K. Chesterton

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

~ Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

~ Walter Gropius

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

~ Clive Barker, Days of Magic, Nights of War

Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid.

~ Jules Feiffer

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

~ Émile Zola

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

~ Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.

~ Dante Alighieri

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
~ Vincent van Gogh

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

~ Danish Proverb

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

~ Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

~ Aristotle

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~ Pablo Picasso

My inspiration is art… because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

~ Daniel R. Lynch

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
~ Woody Allen

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

~ Pablo Picasso

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

~ Edgar Degas

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt.

~ Odilon Redon

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.

~ Claes Oldenburg

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

~ George Moore

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

~ Bob Ross

Art is a kind of illness.

~ Giacomo Puccini

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

~ Rick Riordan

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.

~ William McElcheran

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

~ Oscar Wilde

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

~ Oscar Wilde

I want to meet a guy named Art. I’d take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave.

~ Jarod Kintz, I Want

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.

~ Paul Valéry

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
~ Vincent van Gogh

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

~ Pablo Picasso

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

~ Elbert Hubbard

We have art in order not to die of the truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

~ Lincoln Steffens

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

~ Pablo Picasso

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

~ George Santayana

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

~ Willa Cather

Well, art is art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh… now you tell me what you know.

~ Groucho Marx

Picasso is not our greatest painter, but he is our greatest artist. He’s the great satyr art figure. His whole life is a work of art.

~ Leonard Baskin

The human body is the best work of art.
~ Jess C. Scott

Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.

~ Martin H. Fischer

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

~ John Lennon

Coloring outside the lines is a fine art.

~ Kim Nance

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

~ Loren Eiseley

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
~ Pablo Picasso

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

~ John Lubbock

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.

~ Augustus Saint-Gaudens

He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
~ Hannah Harrington, Saving June

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

~ Ben Jonson

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

~ Pablo Picasso

One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie.

~ Mark Stevens

An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
~ J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

~ Jean Paul Richter

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

~ Pablo Picasso

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

~ Glenn Close

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

~ Vincent van Gogh

Art is the proper task of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is the triumph over chaos.

~ John Cheever

The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

~ Pablo Picasso

Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.
~ Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

~ John Anthony Ciardi

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov

Art is… a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what’s happening.

~ Aaron Howard

All art is quite useless.

~ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

~ Georges Rouault

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.
~ Ansel Adams

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

~ John Updike

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
~ George Bernard Shaw

Great art picks up where nature ends.

~ Marc Chagall

Art is what you can get away with.

~ Andy Warhol

Art holds fast when all else is lost.

~ German Proverb

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

~ Ansel Adams

Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

~ Danny Kaye

To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts — such is the duty of the artist.

~ Schumann

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

~ Stella Adler

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

~ Amy Lowell

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

~ Banksy

Painting is silent poetry.

~ Plutarch

He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

~ Francis of Assisi

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

~ Pablo Picasso

Words Of Encouragement

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Encouragement

Quotations & Citations:

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers.

~ African Proverb

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.

~ C. JoyBell C.

Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

~ Mark Twain

Don’t let the muggles get you down.
~ J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
~ Richard Bach

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.
~ Joel Osteen

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
~ Steve Martin

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
~ Ed Sheeran

You can get a thousand no’s from people, and only one “yes” from God.
~ Tyler Perry

Come friends, it’s not too late to seek a newer world.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.
~ Rodolfo Costa

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled.
~ Deborah Brodie

But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
~ Amy Carmichael

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.
~ Albert Schweitzer

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body; use yours to lift someone up today.
~ Terri Ann Armstrong

Never put off writing until you are better at it.
~ Gary Henderson

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible.
~ Cynthia Patterson

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Apology Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Apologizing

Quotations & Citations:

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
~ Sarah Ockler, Bittersweet

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

~ Red Auerbach

Chocolate says “I’m sorry” so much better than words.
~ Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Save

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

~ King Charles I

Never forget the nine most important words of any family-

I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

It’s easier to apologize than ask for permission.

~ Author Unknown

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.
~ José N. Harris

Apologizing — a very desperate habit — one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

In this life, when you deny someone an apology,
you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.
~ Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

~ Lynn Johnston

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.
~ John Wayne

A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

~ G.K. Chesterton

I wasn’t saying whatever they’re saying I was saying. I’m sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don’t know quite what I’ve done. I’ve tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I’m sorry.
~ John Lennon

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.
~ Michael Chabon

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

~ Margaret Laurence

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
~ Amit Kalantri

Quotes About Appearance

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Appearance

Quotations & Citations:

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.
~ Marilyn Monroe

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

~ Baltasar Gracián

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, ‘Do trousers matter?’
“The mood will pass, sir.”
~ P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

~ Daniel Webster

When you’re the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
~ Criss Jami

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

~ Lord Chesterfield

Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

The weirder you’re going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.

~ P.J. O’Rourke

Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.
~ Erica O’Rourke, Torn

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

~ Niccolo Machiavelli

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
~ Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

~ Jean Cocteau

No matter what a woman’s appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize – as her personal problem – observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
~ Naomi Wolf

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
~ Lemony Snicket, The Miserable Mill

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I’m perpetually surprised, but there’s nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
~ David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson