Khler Murray Quotes & Sayings

There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say. — Charles Hazlewood

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations. — Paul Cezanne

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using. — R. Buckminster Fuller

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return. — Baruch Spinoza

We tend to view compassion as something we project outward - that is, as a presence or gift we offer to another person or on behalf of a suffering world. This keeps compassion as an act of superiority, something the healthy offer the sick. We rarely offer the gift of compassionate presence to our own person. — John Paul Lederach

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. — Russell Baker

Compromising with events time moves along. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself. — Confucius

Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends. — Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot. — John Grisham

Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him. — Mark Hart

I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me. — Alan Cumming

Some find it easier to bend their knees than their minds. Exciting exploration is preferred to plodding implementation; speculation seems more fun than consecration, and so is trying to soften the hard doctrines instead of submitting to them. Worse still, by not obeying, these ... lack real knowing. Lacking real knowing, they cannot defend their faith and may become critics instead of defenders! — Neal A. Maxwell