Goncharova Paintings Quotes & Sayings

I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away. — Ron Wyden

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter

I'm not studying the heroes who lead navies - and armies - and win wars. I'm studying ordinary people who you wouldn't expect to be heroic, but who, when there's a crisis, show extraordinary bravery and self-sacrifice. Like Jenna Geidel, who gave her life vaccinating people during the Pandemic. And the fishermen and retired boat owners and weekend sailors who rescued the British Army from Dunkirk. And Wells Crowther, the twenty-four-year-old equities trader who worked in the World Trade Center. When it was hit by terrorists, he could have gotten out, but instead he went back and saved ten people, and died. I'm going to observe six different sets of heroes in six different situations to try to determine what qualities they have in common. — Connie Willis

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me. — Jamal Lewis

Love, unconquerable, Waster of rich men, keeper Of warm lights and all-night vigil In the soft face of a girl: Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor! Even the pure immortals cannot escape you, And mortal man, in his one day's dusk, Trembles before your glory. — Sophocles

A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want. — Penelope Trunk

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster. — David Cronenberg

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time. — David Hockney

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself. — Stephen Vizinczey

There is no exact principle to be found here. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground - unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive at revelation on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way." "I do have a dreadful love for — Elizabeth Gilbert

Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them who come asking for loans. But always, in the end, the tenants got the money
what they needed for a "decent" funeral, a baptism, a wedding. And as their debts piled up, they promised, "Next harvest will be good ... — F. Sionil Jose

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus

Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: "He was in much better health than we expected." Well, yeah ... except for the DEAD part. — Teresa Medeiros