Hetrick Painting Quotes & Sayings

As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others. — C.S. Lewis

A writer must not take offence when inverts give his heroines masculine faces. — Marcel Proust

Certainly, none of us enjoy going through struggles, but you have to understand that your struggle may be an opportunity for advancement and promotion. The very thing you are fighting against so tenaciously may be the springboard that catapults you to a new level of excellence. Your challenges may become your greatest assets. — Joel Osteen

It's a small world," I observed. "When you put it in a cemetery, it is. — Kurt Vonnegut

The easiest way to buy silver was to take a paper dollar to the bank and ask for change. So much coinage was disappearing from circulation that the government was forced to remove silver from U.S. coinage beginning in 1965. — Michael Maloney

In 77 BC, Cicero used the evidence of a client's well-kept ledger to argue in court for his good character and trustworthiness, saying, 'day-books last for a month, ledgers for ever . . . day-books embrace the memory of a moment, ledgers attest the good faith and conscientiousness which ensure a man's reputation for all time'. — Jane Gleeson-White

If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world? — Fuminori Nakamura

You see, when we met I thought, "There's a brown mouse of a girl with a sharp tongue," and then before I knew what was happening I was in love with you. Oh, I did my best to ignore it, and I thought that if I ignored you too I'd be safely back in my bachelor state in no time - only it didn't work out like that. You were under my skin, in my bones, my very heartbeat. And I'd gone out of my way to make you dislike me so that it would be easier for me to get over you. Only I haven't done that, my darling. — Betty Neels

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. — Thomas Wolfe

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments. — Eicca Toppinen

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship. — Mariella Frostrup

Everything we do has significance. Every action, every thought leaves an imprint - not only on the self, but on the world, on the others, and even on time, on all who come after us!

This implies a responsibility for one's thoughts and actions that should be taken most seriously!

And yet one feels helpless, a hapless victim of circumstances beyond one's control, as if one's behavior and thoughts did not originate in the self, but were a product, an accumulation of imprints from the world, from our ancestors, from the people around us.

It behooves one to take responsibility, to take the power to decide how one will act, and even how one will think! Not only for the betterment of one's self, but for the betterment of the world, all the others, and all who will come after us! — Robert Crumb

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel