Mandalart Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to understand the massive concentrations of political power in the twentieth-century, appearing so paradoxically, or it has seemed, right after a century and a half of individualism in economics and morals, unless we see the close relationship that prevailed all through the nineteenth century between individualism and State power and between both of these together and the general weakening of the area of association that lies intermediate to man and the State. — Robert Nisbet

It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. — Sonia Sotomayor

Friendships come and go, but families are forever ... — Kenny Rogers

In theory it might be so that the reasons you live are what you'd die for. — Daniel C. Tomas

Time marks us while we are marking time. — Theodore Roethke

To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter, — Steven Johnson

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. — Jerry Saltz

I heard most of you were gossiping, leaving the lonely ones alone. Look at people around you. Doesn't it mean anything to you? Anyways, as I have experienced travelling, I realized that there are different people, different cultures, different identities, food and most of all, love, family and responsibility. — Fahmid Hassan Prohor

The thousand dresses, laid out so reverently that afternoon, flecks of dust brushed off carefully in doorways, hems gathered up for the carriage trip: where are they now? Is a single one museum-displayed? Are some few yet saved in attics? Most are dust. As are the women who wore them so proudly in that transient moment of radiance. — George Saunders

When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise. — Robbie Robertson

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils. — Aristotle.