62629 Quotes & Sayings

I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore. — Walker Evans

It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that's why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who's ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn't have trusted. The only reason you should shut off your emotions and emulate a robot is if you're doing horrible things. How fatal my decisions have been. How many people would be loving, rejoicing, and feeling right now rather than crying indefinitely in the depths of the afterlife? If only I'd figured this out sooner. — Bruce Crown

Things happen which would not happen without prayer. Let us not forget that. — Elisabeth Elliot

When you are about to badger the weak,Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man. — Thiruvalluvar

She had a distressing sense of life's rushing by before she had a chance to fully make up her mind in which direction she wanted to go. — Hila Colman

forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our — Alexander McCall Smith