Irving Penn Still Life Quotes & Sayings

Yet the Vedas do not merely ask us to accept such conclusions. They even tell us that it is better to doubt them until we ourselves actually find them to be true. Rather the Vedas present their teachings as models of lines of examination for us to adapt into the circumstances of our own lives. — Jagadish Chandra Chatterji

It is not important to be what you want to be. It's the ability to be what you are supposed to be that matters. — A. Spencer

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable. — Georges Braque

Excuses are contagious, self-defeating bad habits. Where — Tommy Newberry

He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not really as bad as they seemed; it was all a question of perspective. Sitting down and looking up at the sky for a few minutes--not at any particular part of the sky, but just at the sky in general--at the vast, dizzying, empty sky of Botswana, cut human problems down to size. — Alexander McCall Smith

Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Streisand. — Hunter S. Thompson

We celebrate Labor Day by not going to work? — Carlos Mencia

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. — Abraham Lincoln

You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging. — J. Robbins