Buckling Of Columns Quotes & Sayings

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. — Jean Genet

I believe that first impressions are very important. — F. W. De Klerk

Humans are the only animals that draw ... Practically every human being draws at some time in childhood. — Peter Steinhart

It takes a number of years to learn to hold the mind perfectly in one place. But each day we do it a little better, and in the doing we're releasing energy that is taking our mind in higher diffuse planes of attention. — Frederick Lenz

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing. — Phyllis McGinley

Sometimes just explaining your predicament--to a bartender, a priest, the old woman in a shift and flip-flops cleaning the lint traps in the Laundromat dryers--is all it takes to see a way out of it. — Julia Claiborne Johnson

The same things go on everywhere, whether you're from the city, the country or wherever. — Bubba Sparxxx

It is never just disagreement but always intellectual dishonesty that is the apologist's worst enemy. And its apprentice is ignorance. — Criss Jami

Every new breath and day is on opportunity to do something,a gift of life to make a difference in the world. — K.J. Kilton

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way. — Martin Scorsese

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our
insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult ... Just as love for one
individual which excludes the love for others is not love,
love for one's country which is not part of one's love
for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship. — Erich Fromm

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin

Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity. — Sam Owen