Laudaturus Quotes & Sayings

Art is not there simply to be understood ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. — Joseph Beuys

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game. — Lyndon B. Johnson

No one will ever know the exact number of people executed and starved to death in the Soviet Union between the time of the Russian Revolution and the collapse of Communism. Soviet archives at this point do not reveal the total numbers. Unofficial estimates have ranged from twenty million to as high as eighty million. The wide range is explained in part by the fact that some estimates do not include certain groups of people who were murdered or those who died from hard labor, exhaustion, starvation, or disease (such persons were considered by the Soviets to have died of natural causes). — Wesley Adamczyk

Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want — Amish Tripathi

Incarnate ugliness, and yet alive! What would become of them all? Perhaps with the passing of the coal they would disappear again, off the face of the earth. They had appeared out of nowhere in their thousands, when the coal had called for them. Perhaps they were only
weird fauna of the coal-seams. Creatures of another reality, they were elementals, serving the elements of coal, as the metal-workers were elementals, serving the element of iron. Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird, inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass. Elemental creatures, weird and distorted, of the mineral world! They belonged to the coal, the iron, the clay, as fish belong to the sea and worms to dead wood. The anima of mineral disintegration! — D.H. Lawrence

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I have become enchanted by the small asymmetrical whorls of white fur on either side of her chest, and by her tail, which she carries in a high confident curve, and by her eyes, which are watchful and intelligent, the color of chestnuts. — Caroline Knapp

I'm a thirty-something ranch wife, mother of four, moderately agoraphobic middle child who grew up on a golf course in the city. — Ree Drummond

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour. — Sunday Adelaja

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything. — Robert Reich

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do. — John Sweeney

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected. — N. Robert Hammer

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person. — Willie McCovey

And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood? — Geraldine Brooks