Dominique Menil Quotes & Sayings

But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and only abstract art can bring us to the threshold of the divine. — Dominique De Menil

God waits for us to create him. — Dominique De Menil

What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. — Dominique De Menil

Lifetime is a sacred existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth. — Khalid Ibn Al-Walid

All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend. — Ronnie Wood

We are all in the depths of a cave, chained by our ignorance, by our prejudices, and our weak senses reveal to us only shadows. If we try to see further, we are confused; we are unaccustomed. But we try. This is science. Scientific — Carlo Rovelli

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. — Hiromu Arakawa

How could you possibly want to compete about who suffered most?' Beatriss said sadly. 'For if you want to covet that prize, take it! Take it, but don't bring my child into your bitterness. — Melina Marchetta

Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name ... What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival. — Dominique De Menil

In a world filled with mistrust, armed to the teeth and ready to explode, a realistic attitude might be to consider love as an imperative need. — Dominique De Menil

It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him; He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong. — Michael Lewis

Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry. Once, women were trained to marry a doctor, not be one. — Gloria Steinem

Perhaps only silence and love do justice to a great work of art — Dominique De Menil

Because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone. — Bill Gaither

If you're not in the arena with the rest of us, fighting and getting your ass kicked on occasion, I'm not interested in your feedback. — Brene Brown

May I remind you, sweetheart, I never wanted someone else. That was your call. — Alison G. Bailey

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles. — Dominique De Menil

I'm claustrophobic. — Michael Keaton