Hand Painted Canvas Art Quotes & Sayings

Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school. — Clare Boothe Luce

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgements. — Bryant McGill

I don't know who you think you are, but I'm the king's niece, and the closest blood he has left, and you'll keep a civil tongue or I will cut it out. — Rebecca Hahn

Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness. — William Shenstone

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. — Albert Einstein

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl. — Thomas Pynchon

Jenna sighed, "What would a bodyguard do for us? Battle our invisible boyfriends?"
Vere laughed. "Heck yes. Invisible boyfriends can get really out of hand. — Anne Eliot

Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex. — TaraShea Nesbit

We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it. — Kim Chestney

Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings. — Dalai Lama

toddler named Huey Newton was spirited from Monroe to Oakland with his sharecropper parents in 1943. His father had barely escaped a lynching in Louisiana for talking back to his white overseers. Huey Newton would become perhaps the most militant of the disillusioned offspring of the Great Migration. — Isabel Wilkerson

Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars. — Gore Vidal

The enemy ate away at their will so they could not resist, their bodies not only craving, but needing the very poison that ground them into that pitiable state of being; the mind diseased and crippled by the enemy it was obsessed with and the obsession and terrible physical need corrupting the soul until the actions were less than those of an animal, less than those of a wounded animal, less than those of anything and everything they did not want to be. — Hubert Selby Jr.

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. — Jonathan Swift