Falique Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is denied to well-directed labor. — Joshua Reynolds

One who is unrestrained in life-delusion overcomes; as the wind a weak tree. — Gautama Buddha

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. — Jasper Johns

It's not like I'm a rookie pilot. In fact, I invented airplanes. And air. — David Blatt

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer. — Richard Ford

I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off to empty glory and hollow acclaim and leave us behind to pick up the pieces. The broken cities, the burned barns, the innocent injured beasts, the ruined bodies of the boys we bore and the men we lay with.
The waste of it. I sit here, and I look at him, and it is as if a hundred women sit beside me: the revolutionary farm wife, the English peasant woman, the Spartan mother-'Come back with your shield or on it,' she cried, because that was what she was expected to cry. And then she leaned across the broken body of her son and the words turned to dust in her throat. — Geraldine Brooks