Capponi Library Quotes & Sayings

Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric. — George Friedman

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven. — Cormac McCarthy

Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment. — Bernard Arnault

I am living while I am living. — Anderson A. Charles

You will never know how much progress you've made in life until you go back and start from the very beginning". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously. — Megan Alexander

People complain because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses because I have finally learned not to pick them the next time around. — Shannon L. Alder

I don't know if you realize it or not, but your sudden devotion to her is creepy. — Melissa Marr

There are two ways of reaching the people. One way is to invite them to come to you, the other way is to go to them. — R.A. Torrey

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the human body. The embittered art of the twentieth century is perishing as a result of this ugly hate, for art is fruitless without love. In the East art has collapsed because it has been knocked down and trampled upon, but in the West the fall has been voluntary, a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to reveal the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. — John Milton

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. — E. Joseph Cossman

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton