Ismaeel Daybed Quotes & Sayings

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing. — Saint Augustine

In Allston, as generous as he was with his praise and encouragement, Sophia had come face-to-face with the male art establishment and its aesthetic. She had encountered it before when she was hustled out of Thomas Doughty's studio while a men's painting class was in session. More recently, at a gathering in the Reverend Channing's parlor, she had been stunned when the minister had quoted the influential British artist Henry Fuseli's sneering observation that there was "no fist" in women's painting - and then demanded Sophia's response. Flustered, Sophia had "sunk away into my shell," unable to speak, she confided in her journal. She had enough trouble summoning the confidence to paint each day, let alone defend women artists as a class. Channing's question struck to the heart of Sophia's ambivalence about taking the initiative to create original works of art. Virtually — Megan Marshall

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls. — Charles Spurgeon

Ugliness sees ugliness; beauty sees beauty. — Bryant McGill

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists. — Kedar Joshi

Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good ... and there are gooseberries. — Anton Chekhov

You shall be my pet, and my poppet, and my dearest little duck all the days of your life. — Anthony Trollope

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing. — Scott Jurek

How to fail: Try too hard. — Malcolm Forbes

Darkness is not always bad, just as light is not always good. — P.C. Cast

Intellectual talent will give us the upper-hand in the game of life. Fortunately, we all can develop it — Julian Pencilliah

To forget everything - even happiness. Happiness! A casual tickling of someone or something against oneself - that's all. Would that we had never been lovers! For then, Maurice, you and I should have lain still and been quiet. We should have slept, then had we been at rest with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate palaces for themselves - '
'What on earth are you talking about? — E. M. Forster

Success is a state of mind, waiting for action. — Jon Jones

The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where [African-Americans] could live in the North [still exist today.] And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration. — Isabel Wilkerson