Mariken Quotes & Sayings

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence. — H.P. Lovecraft

Therefore we can posit this generalization: That a painting is the representation of the artist's notion of reality in the terms of the plastic elements. The creation of a plastic unit reduces all the phenomena of the time to a unity of sensuality and thereby relates the subjective and objective in its relevance to man. Art therefore is a generalization. The use of the plastic elements to any other ends, which are most usually particularizations and descriptions of appearances, or which serve the stimulation of separate senses, are not in the category of art and must be classified in the category of applied arts. — Mark Rothko

The Court has a special responsibility to ensure that the Constitution works in practice. While education, including the transmission of our civic values from one generation to the next, must play the major role in maintaining public confidence in the Court's decisions, the Court too must help maintain public acceptance of its own legitimacy. It can do this best by helping ensure that the Constitution remains "workable" in a broad sense of the term. Specifically, it can and should interpret the Constitution in a way that works for the people of today. — Stephen G. Breyer

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it. — E. Fuller Torrey

Beautiful is old age - beautiful as the slow-dropping mellow autumn of a rich glorious summer. In the old man, Nature has fulfilled her work; she loads him with blessings; she fills him with the fruits of a well-spent life; and, surrounded by his children and his children's children, she rocks him softly away to a grave, to which he is followed with blessings. God forbid we should not call it beautiful. — James Anthony Froude

Once upon a time, during a time after all the happily-ever-afters, and perhaps even after the ever-afters after that, all the evil villains of the world were banished from the United Kingdom of Auradon and imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost. There, underneath a protective dome that kept all manner of enchantment out of their clutches, the terrible, the treacherous, the truly awful, and the severely sinister were cursed to live without the power of magic. King Beast declared the villains exiled forever. — Melissa De La Cruz

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance. — Laurens Van Der Post

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

Perhaps the most important marketing step any business can take is to discover a way to be different. — John Jantsch

Love's a recurring theme through my work. — Tracy Chapman

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done. — Wislawa Szymborska

Know you can direct a path around them and be your best life if you want to. — Lee Vickers

Your mind can grasp intellectual ideas, but it is in the FEELING where the transformation takes place. — Stephen Richards

Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free. — Emmet Fox

Bill Clinton did everything in opposition to Black Lives Matter and the things that animate the existence of the Democrat Party today. — Rush Limbaugh