Houdon Bust Quotes & Sayings

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world - of all living things. The danger and the glory and the choice rest finally in man. The test of his perfectibility is at hand. Having taken Godlike power, we must seek in ourselves for the responsibility and the wisdom we once prayed some deity might have. — John Steinbeck

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day. — A.A. Milne

Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! — Rumi

That's when I wanted to cut. I cut to quiet the cacophony. I cut to end this abstracted agony, to reel my selves back to one present and physical whole, whose blood was the proof of her tangibility. — Caroline Kettlewell

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends. — Michel De Montaigne

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible. — Louis Aragon

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched. — Jane McGonigal

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it. — Eleanor Roosevelt

I don't have any interest in going out to clubs. I love people, and I love socializing, I just don't have any interest in being drunk. — Taylor Swift

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. — Diane Setterfield

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H.L. Mencken

I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that
signed his work in blood ... When I saw that, I thought it was as if the man who had painted the picture wanted to say to me, Well, you did ask what this actually cost. — Neil Bartlett

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact. — Lynsey Addario

Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold — John Wilson

Up or down.
We're you in an up or down? — David Levithan