Eckenbergs Auction Quotes & Sayings

Don't you love me?'
'I might if I could find you. But where are you? If one stripped you of your exhibitionism, if one took your technique away from you, if one peeled you as one peels an onion of skin after skin of pretence and insincerity, of tags of old parts and shreds of faked emotions, would one come upon a soul at last? — W. Somerset Maugham

Everything seems simpler from a distance. — Gail Tsukiyama

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

His health grew worse, probably exacerbated by the myriad of hovering doctors eager to give their famous patient all the latest treatments: strychnine injections, ammonia, ether, and electric pulses. On — Adam Hochschild

James scoffed. "We are not being held prisoner. You're so dramatic."
"Oh yeah, she just kidnapped us and told us the only way we're going to be let go is if we go to other alien planets and steal from them. You're right, James, I'm clearly overly overreacting," Kat snapped. — L. Taylor

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all. — Irving Stone

There is no conflict, and no call for sacrifice, and no man is a threat to the aims of another - if men understand that reality is an absolute not to be faked, that lies do not work, that the unearned cannot be had, that the undeserved cannot be given, that the destruction of a value which is, will not bring value to that which isn't. — Ayn Rand

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world. — Bill Gates

Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church. — Nick Vujicic

there has been a dramatic decrease in birth and survival rates of caribou calves. It seems that rising temperatures have changed the growing patterns of plants that are the source of critical energy for caribou calves, as well as for their mothers during reproduction and lactation. — Naomi Klein

While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.
[While the discreet advise, the fool doth his busines.] — George Herbert

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero. — Scott Adams

I see for others ... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me. — Pablo Picasso

is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved. — S.M. Butler

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. — Anthony De Mello