Hirst Arts Quotes & Sayings

If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States. — Theodore Roosevelt

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us. — Byron Katie

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her. — Denis Johnson

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies. — Brian Acton

In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts. — Dave Champion

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit. — Morris L. West

She stooped to pick a wild pink rose, avoiding the tiny spines that slivered like unseen glass hairs onto one's fingers. There was little scent, but the creamy softness of the petals like the insides of a dog's ear more than made up for it. She placed one on her tongue, and imagined she could taste the hills, the bittersweet tang of life. — Jonis Agee

International football is the continuation of war by other means. — George Orwell

If I'm tweeting about being somewhere, and I haven't replied to somebody's email from three days ago, that's quite rude. — Laura Carmichael

Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake. — Kristin Cashore

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam. — Jimmy Carter