Encaixados Quotes & Sayings

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love. — Swami Vivekananda

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. — Vannevar Bush

There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic. — Taslima Nasrin

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it. — Henry Green

I still feel like I haven't grown up. — David Duchovny

I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood ... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world. — Michel De Montaigne

Music the fiercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
And make despair and madness please;
Our joys below it can improve,
And antedate the bliss above. — Alexander Pope

Why not worship money? At least its rewards are obvious and immediate . But no, that was simplistic. Letherii worship was more subtle, its ethics bound to those traits and habits that well served the acquisition of wealth. Diligence, discipline, hard work, optimism, the personalization of glory. And the corresponding evils: sloth, despair and the anonymity of failure. The world was brutal enough to winnow one from the other and leave no room for doubt or mealy equivocation. — Steven Erikson

There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for it in English. It means, well, the clever things to say that you only think to yourself when you're on the way out. — Neil Gaiman

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on. — Andrew Sullivan

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. — Maggie Q

Smile, look invested, and when you hand in certain projects, say you enjoyed working on them. — Kate White

However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification, imagine how our lives would have been different without them. But none of that matters: they have happened, and that is that. From this point on, it is necessary that we review our own lives, overcome fear, and begin the process of reconstruction. — Paulo Coelho

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. — Clint Eastwood