Arlenes Art Supply Quotes & Sayings

We are what we are because of what we've been — Jo Beverley

While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundred soldiers beyond Capitol Square, the President, his Cabinet, his generals, and his army were performing movements at which even the American people, though outraged and exasperated beyond endurance, could not but laugh. — Henry Adams

Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion
the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold

There is a scene in it. The hero and heroine make love. Do you know about that? — E. M. Forster

No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony. — Jonathan Hull

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Be stronger than that and know when to take your woman's hand so she can help you break through. — Kristen Ashley

How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime? — Peter S. Beagle