Flury Gallery Quotes & Sayings

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Trying to preach to the world and simultaneously be accepted and elevated in it leads to a diluted message and lifestyle of compromise and contradiction. — Hope D. Blackwell

Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's. — S.I. Hayakawa

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics. — Henry Kissinger

I drink with Jared, jape with Symond, promise Rhaegar the hand of my own beloved granddaughter ... but never think that means I have forgotten. The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer's farce is almost done. — George R R Martin

The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition. — Theodore H. White

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do. — Rosalynn Carter

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it, — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris