Bring Nature Indoors Quotes & Sayings

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again. — Michel De Montaigne

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. — Odetta

My life changed the day I walked across that stage. Because I finally finished something! — Eric Thomas

(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language ... forcing itself to express in thought that which is most ineffable, and in form the vaguest and most fleeting contours; listening that it may translate them to the subtle confidences of the neuropath, to the avowals of aging and depraved passion, and to the singular hallucinations of the fixed idea verging on madness ... In opposition to the classic style, it admits of shading, and these shadows teem and swarm with the larvae of superstitions, the haggard phantoms of insomnia, nocturnal terrors, remorse which starts and turns back at the slightest noise, monstrous dreams stayed only by impotence, obscure phantasies at which daylight would stand amazed, and all that the soul conceals of the dark, the unformed, and the vaguely horrible, in its deepest and furthest recesses. — Theophile Gautier

Sometimes you're only human and you learn. — Curtis Joseph

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more. — Colleen McCullough

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. — Aeschylus

It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that. — George Blake

To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die. — Mary Morrissey

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature. — Henry David Thoreau

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding. — Theaster Gates

She longed for a letter that was for her and her alone, a letter which would give her some glimpse into his heart. — Daisy Goodwin

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason. — Noah Webster

Church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I'd get some version of the same two questions. "Where'd you get that funny name?" And then: "You seem — Barack Obama

My attitude is that when we put a youngster in harm's way, somebody who wears our nation's uniform in harm's way, he or she deserves the absolute best. — George W. Bush