Lauring Augustine Quotes & Sayings

Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting. — Camille Paglia

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it. — Robert Musil

I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought. — Lloyd Cutler

Think before you act: it's not your money. — Robert Heller

What you need to learn are basic types of concentration, bringing more energy into your life, plugging up the holes where you lose energy, the basics of self-discovery. — Frederick Lenz

The wider our conscience, the wider the impact of our actions, and I do believe someone with more light has the moral duty to enlighten others. — Robin Sacredfire

But I am beginning to understand about the dignity and the art of wigs and the makeup. This small, everyday attentiveness of eyebrow pencils is perhaps a picture of the very sort of bodily care our embodied God would have us cultivate, weather in illness or wellness, whether our bodies are in the throes of ecstasy or the throes of pain. — Lauren F. Winner