Coveyou Pottery Quotes & Sayings

You must concentrate on pleasing God alone, and if He is pleased, you must be pleased. — Pio Of Pietrelcina

I shall oppose all slavery extension and all increase of slave representation in all places, at all times, under all circumstances, even against all inducements, against all supposed limitations of great interests, against all combinations, against all compromises. — Daniel Webster

A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Use each moment to make another's eyes sparkle and to warm a heart. — Doreen Virtue

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping. — William Shakespeare

The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. — Elizabeth Bowen

America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names. — Ta-Nehisi Coates