Gne Quotes & Sayings

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years ... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it. — Andrew Wyeth

You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another ... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile. — John Piper

It is not to the moderation and justice of others we are to trust for fair and equal access to market with out productions, or for our due share in the transportation of them; but to our own means of independence, and the firm will to use them. — Thomas Jefferson

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. — Charles Bukowski

What was my path to success? Well, there were some steps forward, some back, some to the side ... maybe it wasn't a path, but more of a dance. — Steve Maraboli

You do not have to seek God's will when you are doing God's will. — Jack Hyles

This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfere in everything, even in their daily quarrels with their wives. — Nikolai Gogol